Word: layed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...slashed or puffed or putrified,-such is the sight which greets the visitor upon his entrance to the Paris Morgue: for immediately in front of the entrance hang two large frames in which are displayed the photographs of the unclaimed dead, photographs taken from the drenched corpses, as they lay upon the rude beds which the Morgue assignees to its guests. And such another collection of portraits the world does not contain. Death and Vice have become joint-editors in issuing this edition de lux. Each picture is numbered and has a description attached. Some of the corpses had been...
...great difficulty which perplexed the club when the project bringing out a play was first considered, lay in the mounting of the play. Sanders' theatre is not well adapted to presenting a play in modern style. It is doubtful whether the proper scenery could be set up on the stage; if it could be placed, it could not be easily handled. The club, however, was naturally reluctant to mount the play in a shabby or insufficient manner. It was felt that no scenery at all might be better than an amount inadequate to the frequent changes of the play. Another...
...five were very nearly the same in the two courses. Of the two courses in question, if there was any difference in the difficulties present, that difference would favor our position rather than weaken it; for in the harder course the marks ranged the highest. The whole fault then lay in the difference of standards in marking adopted by the different instructors. It is a fact that some of the best courses in college are avoided just because the instructors are " hard markers," -avoided, not only by men who are satisfied with a mark of forty or fifty per cent...
...Palmer did not give notice that the two lectures which he devoted to prior and Gay would not be required for examination. He did say that no extra study of the authors in question would be required, but no one of the questions or allusions to Prior or Gay lay outside of what Prof. Palmer had distinctly said in his lectures. While it is very true that some one has blundered, that some one is not Prof. Palmer...
...fear that some of the wisdom of the "sarpint" lay behind this Eton boy's request. Are there no trots at Eton for a man to consult when he is "stuck" in Greek? We should like to see that guileless youth's collection of autographs before we believe his little tale...