Word: n
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Gooding, Leland, Byrne, Wheeler, T. W. Smith, Kenfick, Tillinghast, S. N. Cutler, Davis, A. G. Morse, Starr, Tiffany, Goodwin, Gilman, Lynde, Dwyer, Strobel, White, Stringham, Clary, Smiley, Barnes, A. L. Lowell, Nash, Harwood, Harriman, Woods, Rusk, Hovey, Wiswell, C. R. Browne...
...although we are just as talkative as our ancestors, we don't reel off our speech all at once, for, if we did, we should be called bores; but we break it up into short sentences, and our conversation becomes spicy. And so the popular novelist does n't allow his characters' tongues to run away with them, but gives his pages an interesting look by sprinkling over them a profusion of quotation-marks. The average reader, on opening a new book, is always favorably impressed in proportion as the paragraphs are short, for from this he gathers an impression...
...Latham, '77; F. W. Thayer and J. A. Wetherbee, '78; F. B. Keene, '79. Light-weight sparring: A. M. Jones, '78. Heavy-weight sparring: John Bryant, M. S. Running high jump: F. W. Thayer, '78. Indian club-swinging: J. T. Howe, '80. Horizontal bar: F. B. Keene, '79; H. N. Fowler and L. P. Scoville...
...Harvard Natural History Society have elected the following officers for the second half-year: President, Professor N. S. Shaler, S. D.; Vice-Presidents. J. W. Fewkes, '75, R. W. Greenleaf, '77; Corresponding Secretary, Dr. William James; Recording Secretary, George Dimmock, '77; Treasurer, F. F. Doggett, '77; Librarian, C. E. St. John...
...after the trying ordeal is over, and the "pictures in little" are ready to be scattered among friends, how very unsatisfactory they prove! From the young lady, who bestows her photograph with the remark "Are n't they perfectly awful?" to the acquaintances who agree with her for the nonce, but secretly decide that the picture "flatters dreadfully," there seems to be no one really contented. One expects, of course, to have his pictures criticised, but such criticism is often a delicate matter, and requires some tact, - more tact, at least, than was shown by the man who, on seeing...