Word: meaningly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sublimest thoughts that have ever been recorded. How to choose between the classics and modern languages becomes a hard question. To abandon either entirely for the other is unquestionably wrong. To devote considerable time to the study and appreciation of them both is, it seems to us, the happy mean and the most rational course...
...there seems to be but one item in the treasurer's report which could be really called extravagant. I mean the one for uniforms. These, of course, are unimportant, except in keeping up the esprit de corpo of the crew. I cannot help feeling, however, that the college would be loath to send its crew to New London without them...
...columns of Monday, is extremely significant. It says: "She, (Harvard) has had advantages in point of numbers, and it is only by virtue of our greater enthusiasm and harder work that we have won." Let every Harvard man take this intensely to heart. If those words of the News mean anything, it is this: "Harvard might win if she would." Our very adversaries proclaim...
...written story. In a few lines a situation is very forcibly drawn. There is not a sentence nor a word too much; the movement of the story shows great vigor. "An Automaton" is a very remarkable study and deserves a careful perusal and thoughtful consideration. It is with no mean descriptive talent that the author has succeeded in tracing the various steps in the dulling of the college man's sensibilities. What is implied-that which one can read between the lines is often an index to the value of a piece of writing. In this sketch any one whose...
...Tuftonian in discussing the difference in tone exhibited by Harvard and Yale says: "We do not mean to imply that Harvard is over-confident, but simply that its students are characterized by a disposition to look at the best side of things...