Word: paragraphic
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...past year, the Polo Club has had a quiet and uneventful career, serving no purpose, apparently save that of affording amusement to its own members, and furnishing the college press with an occasional paragraph. Last year, it is true, the announcement that the Yale Polo Club was on the point of sending a challenge to Cambridge caused some attention to be directed to our own organization, yet the interest was changed to amusement when it was found that Yale purposed to mount her team on roller skates. This year, however, the polo players have done something really worthy of note...
...failed to distinguish clearly enough between the uses of the Greek negative particles. One after another gave up in turn, till the question was put to a man who happened to remember the distinction as given in the Professor's Greek Grammar. Rising in his place, he gave the paragraph word for word. Professor Sophocles, with a look of satisfaction, settled back in his chair and growled out, "There, that sounds like something...
...wondering whether the lady is "coy and reserved" in order to make him more in love, or whether she is offended at the "Spanish stateliness" of his demeanor. He becomes greatly moved over his wretchedness. However, one cannot help doubting the real strength of such affection, when the last paragraph of the letter is reached. He concludes a passionate profession of love for Miss Blair, and then adds: "A letter from my signora at Siena, written with all the warmth of Italian affection. I am a strange man, but ever your most sincere friend, -James Boswell...
This was an admirable period, and an admirable place for me to lay aside my pen. But my conscience, or a dxmon, or a vision, or something bids me write on. For to tell the truth, ever since I wrote the first paragraph of this desultory essay, I have been seeking to find a place to insert a portion of a dream I had a few nights ago. It may be wearisome, but I am bent on making it public. "The prophet that bath a dream let him tell it," says Jeremiah. You, my kind but tired reader, I advise...
...subsequent paragraph of the same article Mr. Thwing says, "The intellectual results of four years spent in Harvard College may be made, and often are made, at least as valuable as those of any four years spent in any institution, I do not hesitate to say, in the world" Mr. Thwing is a Harvard graduate, and has written much on his Alma Mater. He has never hesitated to condemn her where she needed condemning, or to praise her where she has deserved praise, and it is just this openness and freedom that gives weight to what he writes...