Word: propter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...perhaps, hard to distinguish between the post hoc and the propter hoc in such a case as this, but let us look at the facts. In the old Harvard gymnasium the daily winter attendance, excepting for a week or two just before the opening of the river, when candidates for the class crews come to exercise, was in my observation (1870-1877) somewhere about 20 to 50. I have been in regular daily attendance for months at a time for two hours at the end of the day with not four or five men exercising beside the University crew. There...