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Word: perhapses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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We must admit that these advantages, allowing them the greatest weight, prove no more than that it would be a kind and fair thing to help the unstudious to a little knowledge that they perhaps would not otherwise get; and to put the studious in such a position that they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SYLLABUS. | 6/20/1873 | See Source »

Second, the injustice of ranking nearly alike two men, of whom one has a real knowledge of his subject, and the other only what his syllabus has hinted to him. Sir James Stephen has pointed out that in history it is quite possible for an adroit and dexterous man who...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SYLLABUS. | 6/20/1873 | See Source »

What is here known as a "squirt" is called at other places a "rowl" or "rush." The analogy between the sudden ejection of water from a pipe and the quick and forcible expulsion of words from the mouth probably gave rise to this word, which so aptly expresses what it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE NOMENCLATURE. | 6/20/1873 | See Source »

THE criticism on the method of instruction in this elective which appeared in the Magenta of May 16, although just to a certain extent, is rather too broad to pass by unnoticed. In order that the course may not appear in an unpropitious light to those who intend to elect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "NATURAL HISTORY, 1." | 6/13/1873 | See Source »

THAT was a hopeless task we took upon ourselves when we criticised Western College Journalism. It was not our design to be unfair, and perhaps our condemnation was too sweeping. We had in mind at the time some glaring examples of inefficient writing and poor taste, and in fact we...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 6/13/1873 | See Source »

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