Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...compels us to such a choosing and testing, to such a nice discrimination of sound, propriety, position, and shade of meaning, that we now first learn the secret of the words we have been using or misusing all our lives, and are gradually made aware that to set forth even the plainest matter, as it should be set forth, is not only a very difficult thing, calling for thought and practice, but an affair of conscience as well. Translating teaches us as nothing else can, not only that there is a best way, but that it is the only...
...freshmen, it is folly to predict much. The Yale '97 men only arrived on Saturday and took their first row today. As between Columbia and Harvard, the latter is rowing the better. Even "Bob" Cook told me that the Columbia freshman crew is the "worst freshman crew" he ever saw. Still, their stroke, Pierrepont is an excellent oar and their improvement may be more rapid than Harvard '97, whose crew today was rowing in very fair form. Hollister, by the way, has been put back in the boat at No. 2 in place of Sleeper...
...more recent additions to the Ware collection of Blaschka glass flowers are now in place in the cases, and serve to indicate even more fully than the previous consignments, the range of artistic skill possessed by the Blaschkas. In the management of color the artists have surmounted difficulties which might have been regarded as insuperable, but in all instances the various tints, hues and shades are perfect copies of the originals, and to this is added the representation of texture...
...country, here and there intermingled with specimens illustrating their foreign relationships. The American Gardan is behind the first range of greenhouses, and attracts a great deal of attention from the luxuriance with which all the specimens are growing. Throughout the garden, all the plants are labelled, even those which are used for decorative purposes being provided with clearly-written labels giving the name and the locality from which the species comes. Altogether the number of species now cultivated in the garden is somewhat over the provisional limit set by the Overseers' Committee on the garden, namely five thousand. More than...
...governing boards of the University, then, one has already expressed itself against any increase of the fees, and even should such increase be voted by this board, it would be sure to be rejected by the other board...