Word: handed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...they employed this modern 'Socrates,' it was the right man in the right place." The modern Socrates is the "stern, inflexible father and teacher, President John M. Walton," whose "fame has spread like the little cloud that arose out of the Arabian deserts, no larger than a man's hand, and has increased till its shadow rests over the most remote parts of Asia." He built up Neophogen until now "she shines with glittering magnificence to the far distant Cumberland, and is the very goal of human perfection. Her little world of literature, the College Pen, makes her a familiar...
...Freshman class next summer is not to be seriously regretted. The prospect of such a race serves, of course, to draw out the Freshmen able to row, and the existence of a good Freshman crew is in a measure a training-school for future University oars. On the other hand, the Freshman race interferes with the University race. Now that we are entering on a series of races with Yale, and with Yale alone, all interfering objects should be set aside. The duel between the principals should take place without minor contests between the seconds. The two colleges will contend...
...North Pole Discovery Association. The doubt might be raised, to be sure, whether the ardor of the sledgers would not cool by the time they reached the region of the tenth parallel, but in that case we should still have the shingles. Let some enthusiast take the matter in hand...
...Would he were here to tear away the hand...
...tell him more than maiden hand may write, though great...