Word: remarked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties--give me a cigar," says Byron--the Vagabond has fallen into what might be called a reminisceful mood. "Nothing", said Herodotus, "gives such weight and dignity to a book as an appendix", and he might well have paraphrased his own remark and said that nothing gives such dignity to a man as a genealogy. And so the Student Vagabond, having arrived at the ripe old age of three years, intends to delve into the past, and see what he can find; like the oysterman who drops his rake through the dark...
Strawn left the discussion of the Chicago mayor with this final remark, and turned to the subject of his address at the Law School, which was suggested by a misstatement of the lawyer's place in modern life in a recent magazine article entitled "Officers of the Court...
...wrote back: "Apparently he [Mr. Thurston] thinks it easy to fool his audience, but he certainly never fooled me." Mr. Thurston eagerly replied : "Harry Houdini had himself locked in a box on the stage, a canopy was thrown over the box and Houdini appeared outside. Sir Arthur made the remark that in the presence and hearing of about 300 magicians that Houdini had disintegrated his body, slipped through the keyhole or some cracks and then had reassembled himself, all in the space of about ten seconds. Such a statement is too ridiculous for even a schoolboy to make...
...SCENTED remark as TO the good men of CAMBRIDGE being the worst dressed ON ANY CAMPUS FALLS into self-imposed OBLIVION when the old SAW ABOUT there being NO CAMPUS but a YARD is dusted off and LED FORTH...
...Yale or the Dartmouth student; (1) an ordered plan of study for his last three years; (2) a tutor, whom he sees at frequent intervals, and who acts as his guide in planning and following out his program of studies. In respect to this second point let me remark that in my three years at Yale no professor has made an attempt to give me an idea of the relationship of my various courses and of the end to which they tend. There are two reasons for this: (1) it is not part of our professors' job to give such...