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...this race there is also a cup offered by the Boat Club for men who have never rowed a single scull race in college. The race thus offers inducements for those who have but little experience in single sculling. Indeed, in the present pititiable condition of single sculling, the merest tyro need have no hesitation in entering...
...pressing forward in the contest for the inter-press foot-ball championship with the interest and the energy that have always characterized their labors in other fields. We will say here that, of course, we do not ourselves aspire to first place; for we wish to avoid the merest possibility of having flung at us the withering and soul-depressing charge, conveyed by that one word, "chestnut...
...honest belief in the existence of faults. The fact is that the book has many faults. As a "piece of literary workmanship" it is far from perfect; the book abounds in inharmonious and loosely-constructed sentences; it contains positive errors so glaring as to be palpable to the merest survey; the use of metophor is carried to such an extent as to be wearisome; and the sole merit of the book is the entertaining way in which a clever but fantastic and imaginative, idea is developed into an interesting story. For interesting it certainly is, but decidedly not powerful...
...proposed procession, but we do decidedly object to having such persons take it upon themselves to stand for the junior class, as though the political feelings of the class were entirely hostile to Blaine, The utter absurdity of the idea that prompted the invitation is apparent on the merest thought...
...standards of living of the community which have taken place, but they have persisted, like our correspondent, in setting up an ideal professor of their own construction, asking him how much salary he needed, and paying all the others accordingly. What the ideal professor always says is that the merest trifle is enough for him and his family; that they are, in fact, so absorbed in study that they hardly know what they eat or wear, and that they would be ashamed of themselves if they needed much money. The actual professor is, however, a totally different person...