Word: ills
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...straw how recitations are conducted when they have nothing at stake. True, in many cases grumbling is heard because the standard of scholarship is kept as high as it is, but those who indulge in this are not the ones to write essays for a college paper on the ill-management of the college...
...time, successful. Your politic man is a curiosity; it is as curious to watch his manoeuvres as it is to observe the ever-changing forms and colors of the kaleidoscope or to note the webbings in a piece of lace. There is a transparency about some of his ill-concealed motives, which makes his success the more wonderful; for people do not always attain their ends when they are seen through, nor do their friends like to admit that dust has been adroitly thrown into their eyes without their perceiving the cloud containing the tiny atoms which for a time...
Some seem to have an ill-will against Harvard, based on no other ground than the contemptible one of jealousy. There is a certain amount of "growl" to be indulged in by those who are opposed to everything connected with us; the sooner they vent themselves of their spleen the better for themselves. Their criticisms are not damaging to us, but only irritating; and this even is caused more frequently by a misstatement of facts than through a presentation of the truth...
Like beauty ill-attired, our humor clothed in uncouth and meaningless phrases is undiscovered. True, with our limited experience, and wit perhaps, we can hardly expect our efforts to bear even a favorable comparison with the elaborately finished work of a Holmes or Warner, whose humor seldom offends in essence or expression; yet if we would succeed at all in this vein, our style, like theirs, must be characterized by simplicity and elegance, our productions must possess pith and raciness...
Nothing will more surely destroy the effect of a humorous story than ill-restrained laughter on the part of the narrator. If a writer would divest his article of all poignancy, he has only to show by his repetitions and redundant expressions that he is fully impressed with a conviction of his own mighty wit, and fearful that his readers will fail to discover...