Word: honest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...surpassed in Middlesex County. He aims to keep standard and miscellaneous books - new and second-hand - and to sell them as low as they are sold in the book-stores at New York or Boston. He strives to please his patrons by prompt delivery, reasonable prices, favorable terms and honest opinions regarding the books. He is entitled to the patronage of Harvard men for he makes a specialty of their trade, keeping in stock a goodly number of the very numerous lines of books that have been written by Harvard graduates and students, and keeping track of a great many...
...facts, also, ought to go far toward impressing the community with the idea-novel, to be sure, but still true-that a great portion of the students at Harvard are laborious and hard-working-not too proud to toil for their daily bread, and not too lazy to do honest work...
...honest old friend and a merry old song...
...what the Miscellany said, because I know that it will never be sent to you again, and so I will quote some of the worst things. Oh, dear HERALD! I did not for a moment think that I was writing anything naughty, or even objectionable, and to tell the honest truth, although I do think that I deserve some blame, I can't to this day see anything in the letter that is so very, very bad. I don't want to make believe that I am too naive or goody-goody, but surely something must be the matter when...
...that he did not approve, has called forth many articles on the method employed of distinguishing the different grades of scholarship attained by men at college. By some, the marking system is upheld, as the only means to prevent idleness and neglect, and as an unfailing incentive to "healthy, honest competition," as one contemporary has it; others trace from it all the prevalent evils that result from overwork and cramming, while some, with careful conservatism, agree that it is a good which, like all other goods, possesses some grain of evil that cannot be avoided. In one exchange the methods...