Word: hitted
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...exchange on this advance, "It is a pretty well understood fact that Harvard has made nothing by the change, and that she would be glad to retreat if such a thing were possible." If we had tried to make a glaring misstatement it would certainly have puzzled us to hit wider of the truth. We not only regard our elective system as one of the most valuable features of Harvard, but we never hear of any such sentiments as the above quoted, except from those who are as ignorant of Harvard's methods and successes as the author of this...
...concert, as effectively as usual. "The Three Glasses" failed to make a sensation, as was expected, owing to the fact that it was sung loud all through. The "Ave Maria" was finely given, and was encored, as were the majority of the pieces. The "Polka" made the most decided "hit" of the evening, and was applauded as rapturously after, as before the encore. A Waltz, by Dudley Buck, which had never before been given in public by the Club, pleased the audience, though it was sung very unevenly and is a rather ordinary composition. The tenor solo was finely sung...
...more healthy, to exercise in company than in solitude. Once provided with a set of gloves, you are ready at any time for five minutes' lively sport, - your own room the arena. The chairs and table are pushed back and you begin. As you meet your opponent's shoulder-hit and cross-counter by a ready guard, or escape them by a quick toss of the head, or by a light step backwards, you smile in conscious power, and feel a keen pleasure in thinking how the blows would sting did you not so skilfully shun them. To tap your...
...reference to the Greek moods which were given. How many would of their own free will have learned anything about the time and circumstances of the First Philippic or about the geography of Greece? The derivation of three words is another question; the first of them is a hit at Euripides, - a little obtuse, to be sure, but quite worth understanding, - and the last informs us of one the ancient customs. There is no more room for further examples, but almost all the papers are made up of questions which a man can easily answer who thoroughly comprehends the author...
...always hit at the Index Niagarensis, as it is the butt of every little high-school journal. A very "cambric tea" article, radiant with "blushing morn," "scarlet horizon," the welcoming of days "rousing sweet melancholy" in "the lymphatic and phlegmatic natures among us," gives us a feeling of sleepiness truly irresistible. We will not tell how "sanguine and choleric blood is bluishly affected," or relate the touching apostrophe to "Ontario not as yet loosened from the embrace of her frozen foe," but we ought to say that "Richard and his horse" is made to do good service. A tolling bell...