Word: pith
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...there is another and more important point involved in the change of Harvard's athletic policy, which I ask to be noted as the pith of this letter. Under the present system where students are at a loss to know what will be done next, or whether their outlays and training may be made naught at the last moment by some unlooked-for rule of novelty, it is not to be wonder that the teams are supported by the college listlessly, and that they themselves play with a feeling of indifference and a proneness to lay their continued defeats...
...Economy," especially designed for the use of students in Political Economy 1. It is, in brief, John Stuart Mill's book condensed into a pamphlet of seventy-two pages. It is calculated to be of inestimable aid to a student preparing for the examination in this course, as the pith of Mill's work is so clearly brought out. In the appendix are the examinations in Political Economy 1 from 1883 until the present date. For sale by W. H. Wheeler, Harvard street, Cambridge. Price...
...unawares he said, "You are laying yourself out! Permit me to say that you are eggsaggerating," which so frightened the Innocent Fowl that she made an immediate eggsit from her nest. He made an eggsamination and discovered that the Hen fruit contained therein, though eggsternally beautiful, had no Pith. The yolk laid on the shoulders of the Editor of that daily Egg (0) was too heavy to be borne...