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Word: neveral (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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...should be made to vibrate in response. With characteristic calmness and decision he brings against Harvard two serious charges, the more serious because coming from one who at home and abroad has done high honor to his Alma Mater, and whose public utterances, in this latitude at least, are never heard but with attention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MR. ADAMS'S COMPLAINT. | 10/10/1873 | See Source »

Such lectures! such questions! such dosings! Why never in serious ills...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PICNIC. | 9/25/1873 | See Source »

...suffering from maladministration, the fault is theirs (if such a class there be) who, while having the wisdom and the character to guide her aright, decline to develop their qualities more palpably to the public eye. "There is such a thing as being so fastidious about means as never to be able to reach a practical end. There may likewise be a form of conditional sluggishness which covers an aversion to the labors and obligations incident to successful exertion under the guise of want of opportunity." It is beyond dispute that under no other government is so full and free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PHI BETA KAPPA ORATION, | 9/25/1873 | See Source »

COOL and delightful the morning, never a cloud in the sky; Romeo, gorgeous with lilacs, pawing impatient near by. Cans and umbrellas and boxes, maidens in dainty array...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PICNIC. | 9/25/1873 | See Source »

...came to see foot-races or ball-playing, and for the next two hours dinner occupied the minds of all. In some cases we fear it was rather the minds than the stomachs, for never before in Springfield hotels had the demand for food so exceeded the supply. As early as 12.30 the advance guard of the exodus to the river started, and from that time until 4 the roads leading to either bank were thronged with every description of vehicle the ingenuity of man has devised for the last century. Every horse, carriage, and passenger was profusely decorated with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REGATTA. | 9/25/1873 | See Source »

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