Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...investigation in New York on Tuesday evening to ascertain whether L. E. Meyers is, or is not an amateur, considerable damaging testimony was given, and it was clearly demonstrated that the runner was not a pure amateur...
...perhaps the Advertiser writer and his co-reformers are not much concerned about such evils. Their sole effort, it may be, is to lead back college sport by the stern hand of authority to the pure forms of earlier days-to the condition where, as the Advertiser puts, the participant or onlooker at the game can recall the "delights of the recesses of his school days...
...only rural, but shabby and almost coarse. The students defend their institution as one of the smaller colleges which has struggled bravely against poverty, has educated men who have taken prominent places in public and private life, and has inculcated and continues to teach sound learning and pure morality. The students whose rough exteriors have been referred to are often the most deserving and ambitious, and in after life they seldom fail to honor their Alma Master. Dartmouth College needs no other or better defence than the remarkable oration of Daniel Webster, spoken years ago, in the celebrated case before...
...information about himself for publication. In 1838 he published "A Greek Grammar for the Use of Learners," which reached a third edition in 1847, and in 1862 had attained a sale of 40,000 copies. Reviewers spoke very highly of it. While writing English that was compact and pure to a surprising degree, the author, being a modern Greek, had a living connection with the ancient language which gave a certainly and ease to his treatment and explanation of grammatical structure. C. C. Felton said of it in the North American Review, that he thoroughly commended it, and that...
Speaking of the selection of rooms, Dr. Wilder says that you must be sure to obtain plenty of sunshine as well as to avoid dampness. It is well also to be sure that the drinking water is pure and that the plumbing is in good order. To those who live in private boarding houses, as many do here, this is a useful injunction...