Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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April 8. Georgetown University at Old Point Comfort...
...then brought to a close by the first device which occurred to the mind of the playwright, such as the finding of a letter or of a long lost relative. Little regard was paid to the logical outcome of characters or situations; still less to poetic justice. In this point Fielding really improved his model, according to modern notions...
Starting from the same point of individual self-improvement, Tolstoy deprecates collectivity as injurious to self-improvement. The artist and the thinker cohabitate as rivals in his work. Tolstoy during his life has grown to his fullest fame. His "War and Peace" is accepted as a great work by all nations. The basis of his work is non-resistance to evil...
...bicycle races shall be counted as a whole upon the following basis, viz.; Five points for the college or university winning the highest aggregate of points in these races; two points for the second college, and one point for the third in rank...
...special students which has taken place within the last few years. He notes that this class of students now do as honest work as the members of any College class, and need no longer be looked on with suspicion. "The body of special students," The Dean says, "may already point out among its members men worth all the labor expended on them...