Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...been employed, but still it does not on that account seem necessary for the State to withhold further pecuniary support when its directors promise that, with such aid, it will not be long before the scientific world will acknowledge that the Museum of Comparative Zoology has no superior, nor even equal, in the world...
...columns of our two papers are open to our essays at writing, and without denying their excellence, we may say that they would be very much better if they could command, as they would like, a stronger literary support; but for practice in speaking hardly a chance is found, even in our societies, of which all the students are not members. No one can forget that some of the greatest English orators won their first laurels, and gave the first indications of a brilliant future, at the debates of a society whose only object was exercise in speaking...
...reading over with care our college papers we find, as a general rule, that the various themes which meet our eyes apply directly or indirectly to college rules, college customs. This certainly ought to be expected, from the nature of these papers. I do not wish even to argue that this is not perfectly right; but I should like to call attention to the fact that a certain class of articles are not as a general rule popular, although their character might at first lead one to expect otherwise. I refer to humorous productions...
...find a fellow with whom we can agree in all important points even, is difficult; to live in the other way, gives little satisfaction to either chum...
...however, need not lack friends or even visitors, if he show himself hospitable, simply because he rooms alone...