Word: moment
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...midst; that our instructors are Christian gentlemen who are ably seconding our efforts; and that the most discouraging thing we have to contend with is the ungenerous action of those who raise their virtuous voices to call in the public, whenever our efforts have for a moment hailed...
...This proposal is to elect simply a class committee of three and a class secretary, giving one of the four officers to each of the four factions. We understand that a very large majority of the class are in favor of this arrangement, and the prospect, at the present moment, is that it will be adopted, that there will be no organization of the class for Class Day, and that none of the usual exercises will take place on that...
...absurdities. To whatever quality it may be due, whether to common-sense, or lack of deference, or indolence, we no longer find the lover addressing his mistress in metaphors, the far-fetchedness of which would put to shame the worst of college puns, nor does he, at the critical moment, lay an exposition of his feelings before the lady, marked by all the elaborateness and ingenuity of a law-argument. The remarks of these chivalric knights on such occasions must have had an effect similar to that produced by a joke when told in ten times as many words...
...some new task, each moment sweeps away...
...College, - the Professor chose to have the questions inscribed on the blackboard, as is done for boys at schools. Now the eyes of many of us are not in the best condition in the season of the Semiannuals, and deciphering hieroglyphics at a time when every moment was precious proved a painful and irritating task. The Faculty have succeeded this year in crowding seventy-two examinations into eighteen days, and can congratulate themselves that they have thus made the work harder than ever before. They should therefore more than ever take pains to be considerate in such minor matters...