Word: must
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...been left out to advantage, there is also much useful information contained between its covers. It is handsomely printed, and the matter is well arranged. Its low price is probably due to the numerous advertisements it contains. The amount of labor and time spent in getting up the book must have been considerable, and it shows that the author has an unusual amount of business ability. It is no small undertaking to write a handbook of a city like Boston, and the author is to be congratulated on his enterprise in undertaking the task and his success in accomplishing...
...General Lister knows, or should know, of the many improvements which have been made in gymnasium equipments of late years; and if he, in co-operation with the students, will cast his influence in the right direction, I trust he can accomplish that which we most need, - and indeed must have, - good apparatus...
...walked through the thoroughfares of Boston and observed the numerous signs that decorate the doors and windows of the shops, or any one who has glanced at the advertisements that make up, by far, the largest part of the Boston papers, must have been struck with the popularity and the prevalence of the word "Harvard" as a trade-mark-and advertising sign. The amusing circumstance connected with this use of the word is the entire want of connection between the thing advertised and the college for which it is named...
...enjoy my peace of mind two hours. I had no sooner thrown myself on my lounge to think over my comfortable prospects, than I was startled by a tremendous yell of 'Jim' just outside my window. As my name happens to be Jim, I thought that there must be some very urgent need of me, and flung open the window just in time to hear a man in the fourth story begin a conversation with his friend below. It was carried on in a very loud and animated tone, and lasted about ten minutes. I consoled myself with the thought...
...present, and she knows it. We admire her wonderful crew, as does everybody else, and say 'Go over the water, friends, and clean out those blarsted Hinglishmen, and may God bless you!' We would n't pluck a single leaf from her well-earned laurels, and for the time must be content with a seat under the gallery. But when Harvard, with victorious self-assurance, steps one side to tread on our corns and tread on our noses as it were, . . . . we propose to stop it." This indignation is caused by our negotiations with Cornell and Columbia, and by something...