Word: rather
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...house, and it is only fair to state that they spoke in a way that did their cause credit. The negative confined their remarks to legal quibbles on the separation of the grand British Empire, and offered some able legal arguments in favor of their theories; but they rather stultified themselves by urging that the Irish were now unfit, would perhaps always be unfit to govern themselves; that they did not wish to govern themselves; that they wanted independence and to smash the British empire; that they did not want to be separated from England; that they were a degraded...
...rather seldom, that a side has such contradictory remarks from its supporters, but the affirmative made havoc with these conflicting opinions. The next debate will be on the question, "Resolved, That President Cleveland should furnish the U. S. Senate all papers bearing on removals...
...deep enough. If public opinion were not torpid on the subject, most of the cheating would stop at once; - few men would be willing to face the sure contempt of their friends even for forty per cent. A remark I heard lately, made by an upperclassman, is rather a striking illustration of how a good part of the college world looks at these things. He was speaking of the proctors; and he said if they were done away with he thought "a good many nice fellows who cheat now would stop." This man was a gentleman himself, prominent in athletics...
...before he was summoned before a member of the faculty and his attention called to edict of the Bible. Being in straitened circumstances and not able to pay for a new coat, he requested to use his other suit instead. He was told that there was no excuse allowed. Rather than leave college he was compelled to put himself at the mercy of a Cambridge tailor and get trusted for the coat...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Mr. Herkomer spoke in his lecture on the necessity of a large income for artists, in order that their home surroundings might be of such nature that their genius should be stimulated to better work, rather than be fettered by these same surroundings. This idea applies equally well to students at college. The quality of the work done by every man is affected by the nature of the circumstances under which he lives. A bare and cold garret may be in theory an excellent place to do one's best literary work, but in practise the theory...