Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...smoothness of your hair. And even in this they do not seem to be consistent, often applying the test in an exactly opposite manner to different persons. But however that may be, believe me, there is not one of your pet oddities that does not go a great way in the estimate that some one forms of your character. I have here an excellent opportunity for boring my reader with a disquisition on prejudices, and for giving him several awful warnings on the sin of hating a man because he wears a peculiar-shaped hat. Alas! I am afraid that...
...another room, we find a handsome set of shelves of the "Eastlake pattern," filled with well-bound books. The whole affair adds a great deal to the general effect of the room. In fact, it harmonizes perfectly with everything else there. It is neither too large nor too small, too wide nor too high. The books are not too brightly gilt, nor are they too sombre. But this is the very thing that leads me to doubt. I cannot believe that, however sincere in construction the book-case may be, the owner's heart is in his books. I fear...
When first I heard of Boston, Hose, I took but little stock in it. Poor ignoramus, I fancied it like our own town, - another Oronto! So I inferred from the fact that whelps are like their dams; and, by comparing little things with great, I erred most sadly. But this Boston is as much bigger than Oronto as the noble cypress surpasses the verbena...
...darkest mysteries to the average undergraduate mind that our Faculty should be so backward in paying respect to the memory of great men. Not the slightest observance is paid in this College to Washington's Birthday; the Faculty stopped recitations on the day of Charles Sumner's burial only so long as his corpse was passing the very College precincts, and last Wednesday, when the funeral services of Governor Washburn were being performed in the Chapel no official notice was taken of it by the College, and students - your correspondent among others - were compelled to attend recitations while the bells...
...bout of the middle-weight sparring called out Messrs. Bryant, '73, and Curtis, '78. There was some lively sparring on both sides, and the first round was given to Mr. Bryant. After an interval of two minutes, they again came forward; the round was well contested, Mr. Bryant showing great skill in his cross-counters. This round and bout were decided in Mr. Bryant's favor. Then followed the second fencing-bout between Messrs. Cushing, '78, and Churchill, '79. The contestants being smaller men, and nearer of a size than the preceding pair, handled the foil more gracefully. The bout...