Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...surprised at seeing no more than a hundred. We attributed this lack of interest to a state of doubt on the part of some students as to whether the fare at four dollars a head would be satisfactory. There is no positive need that four dollars should be the limit of board. An arrangement might be made to supply extra dishes at so much a head to tables wishing them. In this way the price of board would not be increased, and those willing to go to greater expense would be able to indulge themselves. We are sorry...
...from eight to eighteen years. Here they pass ten years of their youth, the most beautiful period of their lives; the period at which the soul, opening to the joys of mere existence, demands nothing but air and light. A corner of blue sky above their heads is the limit of their horizon. Have criminals any less? They are divided by ages and classes in their plays, as well as in their studies. In the one as in the other they are always under the eye of a master. The dormitories resemble the wards of a hospital. Thirty or forty...
...into the sanctum of the student. We have in our little world well-marked examples of this mild misanthrope, holding himself aloof from the companionship of his classmates; forming none of those friendships which add so much to the pleasure of college life; moving within a charmed circle, the limit to which he has himself described, and inside of which he invites no one to come. Like the famed chameleon, basking in the light of his own brilliancy, but losing these bright tints and assuming one of a duller sort when any one approaches, so our recluse draws about...
...together in regard to the feeding and management of their canines. We suppose questions like the following will be discussed: "Does the practice of holding a dog's mouth so that he cannot howl while being castigated for misdemeanor further the best interests of the dog?" "Is there any limit to a dog's capacity for eating...
...important caution there is, however. Let no young man limit his hopes of usefulness to the obtaining of office. Office is indeed "vantage and commanding ground," and therefore to be desired and sought for with reasonable zeal; but the ruinous effects of an exclusive struggle to gain it have been advertised forever in the life of Lord Bacon...