Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...there are but comparatively few people who know what an "Americanism" really is. In a recent article Mr. Richard Grant White in referring to them, answers the question admirably. He states that "it is very rarely that a word or a phrase can be set down as an Americanism except upon probability and opinion; whereas the contrary is shown, if shown at all, upon fact-proof that cannot be gainsaid. The citation of a word from English literature at or before the time of Dryden shows that it cannot possibly be "American" in origin; evidence of its continued...
...interests of the university. The committee state that they see no reason to change their opinions of last year, and that they are satisfied that their action was successful in so far as it went. We confess that we do not see in what it can be called successful, except in making the nine a failure and a disgrace to Harvard College. But the committee, though they agree the nine was not a success, think that it failed not because of the want of a trainer (and here we wish to state clearly that the following judgment of the nine...
Last Saturday's hare and hounds race finished the autumn season of the Harvard Bicycle Club. Last year the club could hardly be said to exist outsides of its officers, and gave no evidence of life except two hare and hounds races and a race meeting at Beacon Park. But at the beginning of the term it was resolved to make an effort to put the bicycle club on its legs again, and under the new board of officers the effort has succeeded beyond expectation. The first run was to Lexington, where the club had an informal dinner and returned...
...trustees of Vassar College have forbidden the driving of nails and tacks in the walls, except under the supervision of the proper authorities...
...what right can a faculty threaten the suspension of a paper where it is pursuing a manly course, and fulfilling its highest duty by expressing what the whole student body feels? There can be no such right except that of might, and it is patent that might does not always make right. But, judging by the past, there can be no danger to apprehend that the college press will ever array itself in opposition to the college faculty except in the most extreme cases, and then it were far wiser that a most careful in quiry be made before such...