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"It is the same thing as when one has been through some frightful anxious adventure, like a shipwreck at sea, or a lucky escape from the charge of a lion while game hunting; the original experience was far from enjoyable, but when looking back in retrospect one enjoys, has even...
*The action at Dartmouth recalls a legend. In 1790, the College Hall being in frightful shape, the undergraduates visited that place of worship by night and ripped it asunder. None was disciplined, it being hinted that the President and trustees were secretly delighted. But a new chapel arose, "without a...
His chief desire, poor man, is to make a good impression. Poorly paid, he hints at his rich friends; insignificant, he talks of the great; uneducated, he prattles of Shakespeare and quotes frightful Latin. Such men invariably fool some people; although he disgusts Mrs. Fisher (Helen Lowell) he wins the...
Yet he hopefully remarked: "The banks can't break me, no matter what they do to the Aga. But my family's position is frightful. They may be paupers when the banks are through with them."
1) How can a more intensive use be made of school buildings to lessen the frightful building costs?