Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...author, by the by, says, "This easy and familiar old pronunciation is done away with, in favor of a new and foreign-sounding style." Is it not well to change the wrong for the right? And does not it seem natural that the language of foreigners long dead should sound foreign...
...steady streams of starving men to right and left did pour...
These, then, are our long-looked-for reforms. A resignation by the Sophomores of their time-honored prerogatives; forty cents' worth of old examination-papers done up in book-form; the right to smoke in the holy precincts of the Yard without scandalizing the feelings of some conscientious proctor; and as a climax to this remarkable category, men who are averse to cuts, and have been heard audibly to growl when an occasional one has been given, are to be informed that they may cut whenever they please...
...single writer to traverse the whole range of English literature without a stumble would be almost impossible. Mr. Taine, although on the whole wonderfully apt to be right, is acknowledged to have made some mistakes; and one of these mistakes is, I think, his estimation of Thackeray. It has always been the fashion to decry Thackeray as a cynic. While his critics unite in praise of his keen insight into all the foibles and vices of our nature, they are equally unanimous in declaring that he has turned this power to a bad use, that he has made...
...induced, by a feeling of personal responsibility and free choice, to take in hand the guidance of their own fortunes, and begin to think for themselves. Then only will this College turn out men of well-balanced minds, capable of filling the high positions which should be theirs by right of social and educational advantages...