Word: personal
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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AMONG the good resolutions for 1874, some person, or persons, appear to have resolved to read extensively in magazine literature. So fierce is this thirst for knowledge that every American magazine for January disappeared from the Reading Room during vacation. They have been replaced, and, as the joke seems to be as fresh as ever, we presume it will be repeated...
...thus it is with everything. The duty of inspecting the schools is confided to an inspector appointed for the purpose, and a departmental committee which always includes either the pastor or the cure. This committee, as well as the inspector, are always named by the administration through the person of the prefect or rector...
SCENE: FORENSICS. - PERMIXTUS (reading). And it is to be observed that in this country large fortunes seldom remain in the hands of one person for more than a single generation. (Division coincide with their feet...
...person referred to - not by name - has since made it clear to us that we did him an injustice in charging him with being the author of the objectionable paragraph in the Advertiser, on which we commented. We are sorry for our mistake, and can only say, in excuse, that we had strong reasons to suppose we were right...
...almost impossible to make sure of there being smooth ice, but might not this trouble be removed by the energetic C. T. C. by means of a wire run up to a convenient station near the Pond from which information might be sent by some competent person? and did we all know how near good skating is to be found I think more of us would improve the opportunity; for what is much pleasanter, after all, than skating (not alone) by moonlight when the stars are reflected in the ice at our feet and the distant house-lights suggest warm...