Word: factly
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...synchronic races, is certainly proof of no mean power, worthy almost scientific recognition." May we be pardoned for presuming to hint that in this very instance it has obtained recognition by the "almost scientific." But this is not all. On such a colossal scale was it that "it fused facts back and down into the central force of a personal will, from and upon whose volition universes with their contents flowed, not floated, into true cosmical harmony." We learn, further on, that "in vital matters, man and woman are equal. In functional relation to the cosmical order, each is other...
...possession as good as ownership, he appropriated my books without asking leave, and if in consequence of this appropriation I "deaded" or "fizzled," he expressed the liveliest sympathy for my mishap, and would offer the consoling advice that I ought to study harder. There was something strange about the fact that the day after I received a check he would invariably want to borrow a little money...
...there be to whom this question, squarely faced, does not afford ample scope for profitable reflections on the past and good resolutions for the future. We have two extremes in college to whom a consideration of this subject would be highly advantageous, - the one easily recognizable, and in fact the ordinary object of moral disquisitions; but I would refer more particularly to the other, namely, to men who sometimes take the highest college honors. Thanks to the system of instruction now practised in the college, a man may pass through his entire course, under the complete dominance of other minds...
...neglect by those having the highest authority in the matter, we will simply state the fact that we have now been members of the Club nearly three years, and that during this time not a single member of the Faculty has entered the place where the constitutions, the manners, and, in some degree, the characters of one half the young men intrusted to their care were being formed...
...mind of the Harvard student. Many other articles in his creed have been cast aside, but for half a century the truth of this has been undisputed. At the present time, however, this subject is rendered not altogether inappropriate by various considerations, chief of which is the fact that the Sophomores are to discuss it in their next theme...