Word: liking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...more I thought it over, the greater appeared the value of my friend's suggestion. Instead of importuning great men like Mr. Hayes for their autographs, I might take my phonograph into Memorial Hall on the occasion of the next Alumni dinner and get his autophone...
...marked, not on what he does, but on what he fails to do. In courses where marking by the "curve system" is in vogue, we cannot of course complain, as that system is said to be "absolutely infallible." However, when we hear of a man whose mark was something like minus 18 on the mid-years, rated, on a subsequent consultation of the "curve," at nearly plus 40, we begin to fear that even equations and curves may err. We trust other instructors, seeing that the curve is for once wrong, will be led to overlook their mid-year calculations...
...have ever taught, pursued, or assisted in the pursuit of athletic exercises of any kind as a means of livelihood; or have ever been employed in or about boats or in manual labor; or be a mechanic, artisan, or laborer." This tells the whole story. The English fear crews like the Watkins Glen, the Nautilus, the Beaverwycks, etc., etc., and have so worded their definition as to exclude these and similar crews from Henley, and restrict the regatta to 'gentlemen' entries, and proves what we said in our last, in regard to the definition, to be true...
...everything which could be twisted into a broad allusion. Of course, it is not desirable to read a passage which is merely indecent; but to omit one simply on account of a word which is not used in society, is certainly straining the point a little. It is like the use of "limb" for "leg," "retire" for "go to bed," and other similar absurdities, and reminds me of Moliere's prude, who had the bare limbs in pictures carefully covered...
...lesson entire, outside the class; for, in the words of Macaulay, "a man who, exposed to all the influences of such a state of society as that in which we live, is yet afraid of exposing himself to the influence of a few Greek and Latin verses, acts like the felon who begged to have an umbrella held over his head from Newgate to the gallows, because it was a drizzly morning, and he was apt to take cold." I don't suppose that any instructor is so absurd as to think that a student will be injured by reading...