Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...soups, and fish, and even beets...
...that all time is wasted which is spent in the minute details of an author's style. The trouble often lies in the fault-finders themselves. Most men do not care, or are too indolent to take the trouble, to "grasp the action as a whole"; it is even often considered "a low trick," and not a proof of some knowledge of his duties, when an instructor gives notice that a synopsis of the argument may be required for examination. You will rarely find a good scholar who grumbles at being forced to pay attention to "the details of grammar...
SEVERAL communications have reached us relating to the decisions of the Faculty in regard to the Glee Club concerts and theatrical performances given by students. These, together with our own observation, show that there is a very general and even bitter feeling among the students against these decisions, as arbitrary, and hostile to their natural rights...
...besides preventing the friends of the students from meeting them in a way agreeable and advantageous to both parties. That this will be the result we firmly believe. The experience of our Reading-Room proves conclusively that nothing but our boating interest can be well supported by subscription, and even this with the utmost difficulty. There must then be a very strong reason for such a blow at the very life of these institutions of the students. If there is any pernicious influence at work in entertainments given for money, detrimental to the best interests of the University, then...
...owed so long that even hope's grown gray...