Word: like
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...called progressive country like ours, where invention after invention is developed from the ingenious Yankee mind with startling rapidity, and where institutions of learning are scattered as rapidly as the products of the Patent Office, it is no easy task to keep posted on the latest improvements, and ignorance of the progress of education may sometimes be pardoned. Still, we felt we were behind the times when we were obliged, after reading on a catalogue the name of Drury College, to confess that we had never heard of it before. A perusal of the catalogue has given us some idea...
...playing was splendid; Blanchard was rugged, and always on hand; Cushing, '79, was omnipresent, turning up at every instant; Holmes worked well; Herrick made some pretty, though not very effective, runs; and Winsor several good dashes. Mr. Wetherbee was much missed; and, in fact, the want of strong rushers, like Messrs. Leeds and Rollins, was much felt...
Amateur Latin verse is all very well, if the quantities and forms are all right, and the constructions classical. But if the lines will not scan, it is of no account that they can be rattled over so as to read something like Virgil or Ovid...
...expediency of playing billiards and smoking; and the infantile regulations by which they are controlled are out of place and ridiculous. If, on the other hand, such rules are appropriate, the students must cease to aspire to the title of "men," when they act and are treated like boys just entering their teens...
...what I want to speak to you about is this: you know we had to spend a great deal of money for boating last year, and this year we 're kind of hard up; and we thought some of the friends outside, who think so much of us, might like...