Word: owns
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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The Advocate says that I failed to understand its editorial because my intelligence has "little in common with our [its] own." The compliment is obvious, and is the more pleasing because evidently unintended. My mistake was a natural one, for I supposed that an editorial criticism, however severe, upon a...
This explanation I willingly make, and I trust that it will be satisfactory. I must say, however, that the Advocate's remarks about my probable age, ability, and experience, though exceedingly sarcastic and venomous, have done little towards showing that the opinions advanced in my last letter are wrong. They...
THERE has actually been an athletic meeting at the Seminary of Our Lady of Angels, and, stranger still, the Index was a prime mover in getting it up. What, what are we coming to? Was it not the Index which only last year was so virtuously indignant at the attention...
"The 100-yard handicap was run against the wind. The fifth heat was won by W. J. Crowley, 12 feet, in 10 1/4 sec.; the sixth by J. S. Voorhis, 18 feet, in 10 sec.; the second round by C A. J. Queckberner, 30 feet, in 10 1/4 sec. and...
The professors of the university, not being officers of the colleges, generally reside in detached houses. Their pay is rather less than that of our own professors. The Oxford tutor is usually an accomplished scholar who has himself passed through the university course. He is the familiar friend of the...