Word: parteing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...gentleman should never soil his hands with work. There was perhaps a time in America, when even those dignified personages in white wigs, knee-breeches, and gilt frames, of whom we are all so proud, - even if they be only distant cousins on the mother's side, - played a part almost manual in laying the foundation of the great country in which we live; but those days are past. The state has successively passed through the ordeals of creation and salvation, in the true old orthodox way; fortunes have accumulated; and there are hundreds of men among...
...representation; for that desirable object has never been secured, I believe, except where the representatives equal or outnumber the represented. But I do hold it as easily demonstrable, that all the evils of open election exist in the old society system, while its virtues are, for the most part, there unknown...
RHETORIC. Hill's General Rules for Punctuation, and for the Use of Capital Letters; Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric, Book 2 to Section 3 of Chapter 6; Whately's Rhetoric, Part 3; Herbert Spencer's Essay on the Philosophy of Style; Abbott's How to Write English Clearly, first twenty-five Exercises...
ATHENAEUM.THE Everett Athenaeum supper being at Parker's, of course, warranted the excellence of what to some is not the least enjoyable part of the last meetings of our Sophomore societies. As was remarked by the speakers of the evening, it was but fit that, after a year's toil in the hardest working literary society in College, they should meet the last time convivially...
...Glee Club sustained their part with their usual excellence. They gave "Now is the Month of Maying" with much spirit, greatly to the pleasure of the audience, who excused some slight inaccuracies, and demanded a repetition...