Word: fill
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...best, and from what we know of Prof. Raymond and the famous fat knight, we can easily imagine it must be irresistibly droll. Then we are to have a lecture on "Household Art," by Walter Smith, which is to be given next week, and we will not fail to fill many of our winter evenings in some such interesting and pleasant...
...hundred thousand dollars has been subscribed for the new Law School professorship, $90,000 of which was given by one man, whose name is not published. Mr. O. W. Holmes, Jr., has been asked to fill the chair...
...Literary World thinks that Harvard should have a Shakspere professorship, and wishes Mr. Hudson to fill it. "Can such things...
...safe to say that the instruction given in a certain section last year would be easily within the comprehension of a child of three years. One would think that if the Rhetoric instructors did not care to make their courses attractive, they would at least not seek to fill them by overriding the rules in regard to anticipation. Rhetoric is such an easy subject, and the instruction is so unpopular, that if anticipation were allowed as freely as the Regulations intend, the number on the rolls of the Rhetoric sections would fall to as low a figure as the actual...
...print, what stuff must the editorial waste-baskets contain! Undergraduate poets seem to have a poor command of language, and this gives rise to repetitions, and gives an air of awkwardness and carelessness to many of their compositions; we often find words put in merely for rhymes or to fill out the stanza, and a general lack of careful revision is painfully evident. I have noticed that the last stanza, - often the last line of the last stanza, - contains the worst faults in the piece, as though the "divine afflatus" had all escaped before the poet reached his period...