Word: plain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...more importance-and we are inclined to believe that none have been of as much importance-as the problem which is presented by the over-crowded condition of Memorial Hall. In what manner the increasing number of students is to secure good board at a moderate price is not plain; in fact, it looks today as if, after Memorial had reached its limit, no provision would be made by the University authorities for the students still unaccommodated...
...VARSITY GLEE, BANJO AND MANDOLIN CLUBS.- Concert tonight in Jamaica Plain. Leave Harvard Square by special electric car at 6.40 sharp. As the car has to be started on time, every man must be prompt. Ask the car-starter for special...
Immediately upon approaching the subject of scholarships, one stumbles across questions of practicability. Scholarships ought to be given to those students who most need money and who are likeliest to be useful in the active life of the world after graduation. This much is plain. But the question comes: is not college rank the only practicable test for determining distribution of scholarships...
...succeeded-hence Cordovannier, cordonnier, cordwainer. Cant perpetuates a sneer against the monks who did no work but singing-cantabant, Hocus-pocus again satirizes their ignorance, and also contains a sly Protestant laugh at the Catholic mystery of transubstantiation-hoc est corpus. That wigs were originally a French fashion is plain enough in the word itself-first corrupted from perruque to periwig, and then contracted for convenience to wig. Chouse, in the sense of to cheat, carries us back to the days of James First, when an impostor palmed himself off upon the people of London as a Turkish ambassador...
...ever-surging, yet bridled, excitement in the poet, giving a special intensity to his way of delivering himself. In poetical races and epochs this turn for style is peculiarly observable; and perhaps it is only on condition of having this somewhat heightened and difficult manner, so different from the plain manner of prose, that poetry gets the privilege of being loosed, at its best moments, into that perfectly simple, limpid style, which is the supreme style of all, but the simplicity of which is still not the simplicity of prose. The simplicity of Menander's style is the simplicity...