Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...struck on the match-vases only, and, after being used, must be carefully extinguished," Another sheaf of garnered wisdom is instructively presented thus: "Great care must be taken not to let pins, pencils, or other small articles drop into the pianos." But right here this leads us to remark the strange oversight of the writers of these bright sayings. For instance, in this last the articles are limited to small ones; now stoves or coal-hods, or even axes, would certainly injure the tone of pianos into which they are dropped, the opinion of Cambridge firemen to the contrary...
...rounds of the Boston papers, all tending to show the peculiar brilliancy the students here possess. It was stated that the students carefully carried down stairs every article of bedding, while they with equal care threw crockery ware and mirrors out of windows. One would naturally suppose that this remark, which died years ago through old age and inanity, would have been allowed to rest in peace. This is only an unimportant one of many instances, and if they were all as harmless as this no great offence need be taken (although it must be rather disgusting to students...
...return to the old state of things, would be conceivable; but open election, it was thought, meant the assertion of a principle, from which it would be impossible to retrograde. The anonymous expression of regret for the ancient regime might, therefore, seem idle petulance, and call for no remark, even though its author feels it necessary to go back two thousand years to the system of oligarchy to find an instance of illiberality on which to affiliate his sentiments. Insulting allusions, however, to gentlemen who are fellow-students, combined with a narrow-minded misrepresentation of the recent liberal reform...
...similar, and our sympathies common. Any feeling of hauteur or superiority with which Harvard undergraduates may have regarded Yale at the founding of that institution has certainly perished in the lapse of time. Any such feeling should certainly now vanish before Yale's fair escutcheon, blazoned, as they justly remark, with the noble achievements of one hundred and seventy years...
...Saturday morning the Advertiser, after giving the list of officers elected by the Class of '76, made the following brilliant remark: "This was a victory for the Puddings, and a return to the vicious system of society influence in elections." Where ignorance is bliss, 't is folly to be wise...