Word: formely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...represented next year. The Yale Princeton game was so satisfactory that former arguments against rough playing are nugatory. Good work this fall has kept the foot-ball men in good trim, and although '86 will be greatly missed, we have no doubt that the new captain will form a worthy 'varsity team...
...Those are note-takers," he replied, "a modified form of a phonograph. You see everything I say is taken down by the instrument, provided it is kept in motion. The necessity of keeping the crank revolving is what insures me an audience which remains awake," and the professor smiled grimly. "A few of the wealthier students, however, own note-takers which are run by a small electric motor, and these luxurious individuals send their instruments by some friend, and save themselves the trouble of coming." - Cornell...
...Americans have grown wise and prosperous by adopting the ideas and customs of other nations"; for to say this is to slight those principles which every true American loves to think of as the cause of his country's greatness. We are the exponent of an original and unique form of government whose feelings are almost lost in its advantages. Our progress is due largely to the fact that, being freed at first from an inferior form of rule, together with the obnoxious customs it carried with it, we have been kept free thus far from that form of rule...
...appreciation of his efforts. We have at last the ideal realized in Mr. Beckhard's palatial store under the extension of Parker's on Tremont Street. The most refined taste has been expended in the presentation of his business. Mosaics and cut-glass stained windows and smiling Hebes here form the rule. Especial attention has been paid to render the store attractive to young men, and every student who visits it cannot fail to feel that college men have still an attractive renumerative avenue open to them in business...
...ridicule oftener than approbation is manifested by the listeners. An assembly usually greatly prefers to hear a speaker who hesitates and stumbles in his remarks, provided they are extemporaneous, than one who fires off at short range a carefully prepared and committed speech, though it may be faultless in form and logical in argument...