Word: plainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...July Manhattan will have a humorous short story, "Plain Fishing," by Frank R. Stockton, the author of that amusing sketch, the "Lady of the Tiger?" A biographical and critical paper will appear on the Earl of Dufferin, written by J. L. Whittle, the earl's in intimate friend, and one of the staff of the Lord Chancellor of England. J. Parker Norris, so well known as a Shakespearean scholar and collector, is not likely to be lacking in a reverence for Shakespeare, and yet, in discussing the question, "Shall we open Shakespeare's Grave?" he did not hesitate to argue...
...lavishness prevailing outside. The tone of American life is not simple, and comparing the general scale of living, inside and outside, now and twenty years ago, we doubt if the undergraduates have done more than keep up with the rest of us. The only people whom we discipline into plain living and high thinking are those engaged in the work of teaching; we make that calling as unattractive to men of ability as possible. An able professor, with a family, screwed down to $4,000 or $5,000 a year, and surrounded by undergraduates living in splendor and luxury...
...praised so much for any peculiarity or eccentricity of style, nor yet for any particular beauty, but for the quiet and harmonious designs of the whole, and she maintains that the buildings look what they are intended for, namely, for study and recitation rooms, and, plain and sombre as they may be, are fine examples of useful architecture. This is the keynote of all criticisms on our new buildings. It was quite possible for Mr. Richardson, the architect of Sever and Austin Halls, to have erected pretentious structures, complex with designs, overloaded with ornamentation and bewildering in turrets and corners...
...Sargent in gymnasium apparatus is a new arrangement of pulley-weights, which tends to reduce the friction to a minimum, and thereby renders work on them easier and more agreeable. This result is accomplished by substituting rolled shafting, similar to that used in mills, in place of the plain iron rods now in use in the old machines; by changing the bearings so that the weight box will run exactly parallel to the bars, and thus prevent lateral pressure, and by increasing the diameter of the pivot...
...only excuse that was offered in the past for their monopoly no longer exists. It can not be urged that the owners of these courts have gone to any expense this year, as the season has not opened as yet. This being the state of affairs, it is very plain that the time has come when a new arrangement can be made that should satisfy everyone and will be unjust to no one. As the ground belongs to the college, there can certainly exist no individual proprietorship. Our idea is essentially the same that we advanced a year...