Word: point
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...choicest stanza had been left out; the Bummer looked in vain for his complaint about the janitors, and declared that the Editor was fawning on the Faculty; the Professor was disgusted with the complaints, and publicly reviled the paper at all his recitations; the Wit found that all the point of his article had been left out, and that his brevity jokes had been spoiled by the printer. However, there was point enough left in them to get the Editor cowhided by a janitor and suspended for speaking disrespectfully of the President. Truly, a weary wight...
...Lady loq. - Will you be so good as to point out to me a few of Hunt's pictures...
Granting that there is a need for such a journal as he seeks to establish, is not the editor, from a literary point of view, wholly unfit for his position? He is understood to have the support and approbation of the President and Faculty, yet could even its youngest member read the pompous prospectus without blushing for his representative...
AMONG business men, many of whom look upon a college education as of doubtful advantage from a money-making point of view, there is a pretty general feeling that the University instruction might be so enlarged as to include the rudiments of business. It is a common complaint among those who graduate from Harvard, that they are obliged to begin at the lowest round of the ladder, and do the work commonly assigned to boys of fifteen or sixteen. This is, for the most part, unquestionably true, and as a partial remedy, the writer would propose the following plan...
...trail is found, the pack close up, and follow it strictly. If, however, the hares are viewed at any part of the run, the trail may be disregarded, and the hares chased by the shortest route. The master of the hunt (the hares not having been sighted) determines a point from which the hounds are permitted to race for home...