Word: half
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...here it is noticeable that two widely varying accounts of his life are extant, - one by Geoffrey Monmouth, a writer of the first half of the twelfth century, which was translated from a Welsh original, written by Walter Mapes, Archdeacon of Oxford; and the other by Sir Thomas Malory, printed by Caxton...
...find by inquiry that many readers were compelled to think the writer in earnest during the first half-column. They then ran on such a sand-bar of conceit - provided he was in earnest - that they concluded it was sarcasm. After that the article was such a curious combination of sarcasm and burlesque, and so frequently did there occur conflicting opinions, that it was impossible to form any idea of the article as a whole. Many unacquainted with college life must have thought there were facts there well concealed, and this is where the harm comes in; we must...
...About half of everything here is hypocritical to a more or less extent," is the "awful statement," to make which the Lampoon abandons its levity. If this statement be true, the Lampoon will not have lived in vain. If by these words we are brought to a realizing sense of our condition, our "comic college journal" will deserve all the good things that have been said of it, and may rest its reputation on this one point...
...their work, those who have no interest and never make believe that they have, and finally the Mr. Digby who "runs up to the instructor after recitation." This gentleman now declares that the majority of undergraduates are classed with him and do as he does; that more than half of us feel no interest in what we are doing, and, to raise our marks, we pretend to have that which we lack. He is rash, it seems to me, in judging others by himself. I know too many really interested students to believe that a majority of us are Digbys...
...their relations to the overseers and examiners. To such a painful conclusion does the discovery of the Lampoon lead us. To disprove this final result of the charge would require knowledge of proceedings to which ordinary mortals are not admitted. I must leave, therefore, the implied statement that "about half" of the Faculty are hypocrites "to a more or less extent," to be disproved by some one who lays claim to a clearer understanding of the motives which govern the actions of the "powers that...