Word: final
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cato" and the dramatic tendencies of the age in connection with the rigid principles of "the three unities" in composition. The introduction of this principle into England and its only temporary prevalence there, was discussed at some length, with citations from Dr. Johnson, who seems to have given the final blow to its influence. Mr. Perry remarked upon the close connection of authorship with politics at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and its bad effects on literary production. Fulsome dedications and political services in the way of adulation and satiric composition were the chief claims to patronage...
...King's "Final Issue" of the Register is still meeting with favorable comment, and a large sale. "Our French Visitors," from the same publisher, has also met with great success...
Again, what worse habit can a student form than that of procrastination, - of "putting off till tomorrow, what can be done today?" Its disagreeable features are surely plain to us all, when, before the final, or mid-year examinations, we contemplate the immense amount of work that has accumulated, and vainly regret so many wasted hours...
...Athletic Association, feeling that an annual series of track athletic contests between Yale and Harvard would be of great advantage to the athletic interests of both colleges, hereby expresses its willingness to send two representatives to meet two representatives from Yale, both delegations to have full power to make final arrangements in regard to the same; and would suggest Springfield as a desirable place for the conference, the date to be decided upon hereafter as convenient to the representatives of both colleges...
...each man's name was called he marched up to the table and commenced a process of slow revolution about it, stopping at each of the professors to answer what appeared to be very numerous questions. My name was one of the first, and, having given myself a final brace, I stepped proudly up to the table, conscious that I was the only American there and determined to sustain the honor of my country. I was, therefore, not a little taken aback when the individual with the pile of papers held out my passport to me and calmly told...