Word: much
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...MUCH complaint is heard about the condition of lower Holden every Monday morning. We will not say the dust is actually two inches thick, or that the air is so musty as to choke one; but certainly there is just cause for complaint from students who have to dust those ugly black benches with their elbows, and who have to breathe close air. Such a state of things as does exist at present indicates that somebody is remiss in the discharge of his duty. We trust this matter will receive the attention it deserves...
...sure, except our good Boston members, who may consider the change an encroachment upon their Saturday promenades in town. The prizes will be selected according to the best judgment of the officers, but of course the funds of the Association will not allow the display of much taste. Men should, however, contend for the honor and not the prize. Next year, it is thought, some measures will be taken to make, not the pewter, but the credit attached to winning an event in good style, the object of a man's ambition. We call particular attention to the request contained...
...demolish the `independent man,'" says the critic, "and, we infer, to disprove the existence at college to any great degree of that fungoid growth, toadyism." Nothing was further from our purpose than to disprove the existence of that "fungoid growth"; on the contrary, we regret that there is so much of it here; but we ventured to suggest that the epithet is often applied too indiscriminately. The misinterpretation of our meaning is so obvious that we do not see how it could be made accidentally...
...practice of taking notes in recitations should be avoided, as it gives the appearance of paying attention; it is much better to remember what you can, and put it down in your own room, where no one will...
...mean both; somehow one can't study much at Cambridge; and, again, I don't believe that half of the courses can do me any good...