Word: resultant
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Popularity may result legitimately from truthfulness or illegitimately from insincerity. When La Rochefoucauld says that hatred towards the popular is nothing but love for popularity, if he means hatred of legitimate popularity, he is certainly right. But the popularity which results from insincerity men do not hate: they feel contempt...
...were so large and visible that the beast seemed like some equine jumping-jack, whose tail must be pulled if you would set the legs in motion. This is but an idle fancy, for you might have pulled that tail with all your might and never produced the least result, unless, perhaps, you pulled the poor animal over. Need I say, then, that he was a very safe family horse? The small boy drove him without peril, except once when he was coaxed into a trot, going down hill, and directly fell down, breaking both shafts. Even then little damage...
FOUR weeks ago we published an article describing a proposed base-ball case, with an estimate of its expense. Since then the three upper classes have been thoroughly canvassed, with the result of getting $55 paid from '78, $50 from '79, $50 from '80, and $12 from '81, a total of $167. The sum stated as needed was $200. And it was also said that any class which subscribed less than $50 would forfeit the right of having its year inscribed upon the case. Unless '81 comes forward with more generosity than it has yet shown, it would seem...
...concert go for the benefit of the Boat Club, if Sanders Theatre could be secured as the place for the entertainment, if the tickets were sold at a low figure and a thorough canvass of the College made, - if these steps could be taken, we are confident that the result would be a large addition to the boat-club funds, and a consequent reduction of the amount to be raised by subscription...
...Much time and labor are expended on the subject catalogue. What is the result? Except as regards those books easiest to find, it is a failure; and students or others must go without what they want, unless they apply to one of the two assistants who understand the subject catalogue. As an example: suppose one wished to find a translation of a French play, which appears in English under a new title and with the translator's name in place of the author's. The student does not know this new title or the name of the translator...