Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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In the world of business gigantic failures and the enormous power exerted by the stock-broker in connection with the daring speculator have revealed a state of affairs as melancholy as it is reprehensible. The past year has been peculiarly marked by such events. A distinguished clergyman lately said, he...
WHEN permission was first granted to the undergraduates by the Corporation to use Lower Massachusetts for a reading-room, an association was at once formed and the hall well furnished. It was supposed by all that the only thing lacking in past years had been the countenance and aid of...
The first fact about college poetry which strikes one is that there is a great deal too much of it. The maxim "Write nothing in verse that can be written in prose" is entirely disregarded, or rather inverted. The would-be poet, thinking that passable poetry is to be preferred...
A GRADUATE of Harvard University of some legal celebrity, addressing a deliberative assembly not long since, whilst urging the necessity of a sort of missionary bishop for the diocese of Massachusetts, made the declaration that the young men at Cambridge needed rousing up to serious religious thought, or they would...
PROFESSOR AGASSIZ is making arrangements to obtain the services of a distinguished naturalist for those students interested in natural history who propose to elect the course marked Zoology. The name of the gentleman is, for reasons best known to Professor Agassiz, at present withheld. It is sufficient to know that...