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Word: realing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...item of $181 was for a shell broken "August or September," 1886, and belonging to the class of '88. Why a shell should be moved during August or September, and where it was moved to, and who broke it, do not appear in the explanation. Is this "apparent" or real carelessness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/20/1887 | See Source »

...item of $161 was paid back to a committee which thought last spring that it had enough money to pay for running the launch, but found last autumn, after the launch-running season was over, that it didn't have enough money after all. Is this "apparent" or real carelessness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/20/1887 | See Source »

...item of $50 was an item two or three years old, of which only one person knew the existence. This item was not on the books. Is this "apparent" or real carelessness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/20/1887 | See Source »

...will not lighten his pain, now that he is dead, if his volume be thumbed ever so eagerly. But Mr. Perry makes no attempt to screen his new god's defects, and in the end he leaves us to judge if after all it be not a real...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The June "Monthly." | 6/17/1887 | See Source »

...Harvard because there is no single course in which a student can get a comprehensive knowledge of English literature. It is perfectly true that no such course exists, for the simple reason that it would be of no value. The courses are to teach the students the literature, the real works of the authors, which certainly cannot be done in one year, but may be fairly well done in four years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English at Harvard. | 6/14/1887 | See Source »

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