Word: realing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...accepted the situation: the girls' affections must be won, but how? A sight that had met our wandering gaze suggested the modus. Just in front of the girls, and consequently but two seats in front of us, there was one of those honest, real old-fashioned bald-heads, with about five hairs above each ear and all the rest a glittering expanse. Now, it has always been a theory of mine that if you can get a young lady to smile at what you say, you can soon get her to smile...
...sign-post criticism" which the former deprecates); granted that Professor Child has on one or two occasions found it necessary to disagree with some of his fellow Shaksperians, - what have all these specious accusations to do with the matter under discussion? They will not alter the fact that the real successes in Shakspere criticism have latterly been achieved mainly by the society which the Advocate affects to despise. The method of study by which the plays have assumed some chronological shape, by which metrical tests have been consistently applied, by which the growth of style can be traced, by which...
...dues. Instead of admitting only men who are fitted for membership, either by great proficiency or enthusiasm in the subject, many are proposed for membership by their friends, and elected, simply that they may boast one more shingle or medal. These men have the effect of diluting the real strength of the society, and by their admission it is reduced to a society to which it is a social distinction to belong. The next step is to keep out a man who is not popular, but still really qualified. This is bad enough, as it is unjust to such...
...ready to-morrow, a little additional exertion could have brought them out to-day, to the convenience of a large number of men. The mistake is doubtless due entirely to an oversight, but we think that a little more thought might have been bestowed on the matter, and a real though trivial annoyance spared to the students...
...property in the land; and of the enjoyment of his property - the result of his labor - he can no more justly be dispossessed by an outsider than he could of a house which he had built upon the land. Of course his claim would not hold against the real owner of the soil, - the College, - for he pays no rent. But it most certainly ought to give him a title to the land against a person who has done nothing whatever towards bettering...