Word: parteing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...class was still in the examination-room, nor was the room empty when four hours were up. Now, since we were particularly requested in this examination to "pay attention to form as well as substance," we should like to request of the instructor some attention on his part to the swiftness with which the minutes pass, and also to the imperfect powers of man. This, I think, but a fair request, for, when more is expected than a mere answer to the questions, the questions themselves should be such that they will allow time for the extra work. When...
...Westchester County, from Byram River to Williams Bridge, was the famous Neutral Ground, the scene of Cooper's Spy and the favorite haunts of the Cow-boys and Skinners. The Cow-boys were British; the Skinners, American skirmishers. Occasionally these gentlemen would have an encounter, but for the most part they preferred to amuse themselves with burning down the houses, and driving off the cattle of their enemies, or - mutato nomine, for it amounts to the same things - in borrowing from their friends. Between the two the Westchesterites had a happy time, and no mistake. Sometimes the same band would...
...with a feeling of "sweet sorrow" that we part for the time with Carey and Porter, to look within the pages of two other works of a somewhat different school of American humor. While exhibiting a less fertility of imagination than the "Social Science," and perhaps less profundity of obfuscations than the "Intellectual Science," yet, in play of fancy and subtlety of wit, the "Harvard Bible"* is second to no other humorous production of this age. In it we think we find traces of a familiar pen, and recognize, here and there, the touches of a master hand, whose productions...
...little did these ancients suspect that within a few centuries the work whose exclusive enjoyment was theirs would become a part of the general edifying literature of the world. The arrangement of the work is excellent, considering its early date, and in general its wit is very pointed; but there are some humorous touches in it which we cannot satisfactorily explain. For instance, we find on page twelve an apparent reference to our modern games with forfeits. "A student who fails to do this forfeits her right to washing for the week." Was that a joke practised in the school...
...abolish Monday-morning recitations. It appears that these recitations tempt some students to work on Sundays, and the Seniors feel that they cannot conscientiously refrain from calling the attention of their instructors to the terrible fact that some members of the class have been weak enough to devote a part of the day of rest to classics and mathematics...