Word: samenesses
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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From want of room we are obliged to defer notice of other books, from the same publishers, until our next number.
What is here known as a "squirt" is called at other places a "rowl" or "rush." The analogy between the sudden ejection of water from a pipe and the quick and forcible expulsion of words from the mouth probably gave rise to this word, which so aptly expresses what it...
In asserting that "of the six hundred undergraduates in Harvard College, the proportion who enjoy good classical music is much smaller than it should be, "the writer enunciates a truth, though it can hardly be considered startling in originality. Where are we to find any number of persons, in any...
In the second place, as to the merit of such a claim on Yale's part. It must be noticed that, at this point, we leave the province of clear and unanswerable reasoning. On such a question opinions are determined, not so much by the spoken reasons (such as on...
Those who know him, while they appreciate, as far as in them lies, all these soaring thoughts and lofty aspirations in Skiapous, are none the less inclined to regard him as a failure. For they are aware that he refuses the advantages which his largeness of foot gives him, and...