Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this remark Mr. Wilde's face assumed a look of weirdness, an expression of yearning after the infinite...
That was our first interview, but I am pleased to remark that it was n't our last. I was with her all that day and the next. With some effort she found herself soon able to tolerate me; and, as for me, I always did dote on having some one to fight with. As for the necessity of my departure on the morrow, though when I accepted the invitation I represented such to be the case, still I felt at liberty under the circumstances to reconsider. So I remained. In short, I continued to remain, and should have been...
...cannot quite see on what the Spirit's Yale correspondent bases the remark with which he ends his account of the meeting, that "the general result of the games promises well for Yale at Mott Haven next spring," as none of the other records made were as good as those made at the average meeting, with the exception of the hammer throwing, which, although fair (82 feet), was nevertheless made by a postgraduate, who, not being an undergraduate, is not eligible to compete at Mott Haven. We do not say that they have not the material at New Haven...
...mere name to make a college institution; it requires the interest and approval of the men." What does the Advocate mean by "the men, - those who play Lacrosse or tennis, or those who do not? If it refers to those only who take active part in the games, the remark is merely a bald truism. No man would be such an idiot as willingly to engage in anything which he disapproved of and felt no interest in. But if the Advocate is referring to outsiders, what is the statement meant to prove? For surely it cannot be denied that...
...remark that the most unendurable of tyrants is the petty tyrant. Puffed up by what little authority he has, he struts about as if ready to challenge the universe. To remind effectually such a little tin god-on wheels that he is after all nothing more than a common mortal, is a pleasure that falls to the lot of few. We rejoice, therefore, that the students so energetically rebuked recently the unwarrantable assumption of power by a too officious official. The Directors of the Dining Hall, in branding the Bursar's action in removing one of their official bulletins...