Word: se
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Loving cups, per se, are about as useless objects as one can well imagine. They cannot be used to hold flowers, nor yet potations. As decorations they suggest proficiency at golf or the modern dances. But the idea behind them, the spirit which actuates a Yale class to present a loving cup to a Harvard class--or vice versa, more than makes up for their intrinsic uselessness. They stand for courtesy and friendship. Yet the presentation of cups to Yale or Harvard classes should not become a mere custom. A loving cup, given because it is the thing...
...Castle closes with the following remarks: "I must admit that I found the teaching of English per se in the preparatory schools much better than my reading of entrance examination papers led me to expect. The deduction seems to be that there is a deficiency in our whole American scheme of education which makes it incapable of training our boys into habits of clear and logical thinking. Without, it no number of parrot-sung rules can avail. With it the writing of good English becomes immediately possible. The two hundred papers which I have read from the pens of English...
...cannot see what good it does any one whether at college or not whether a foot ball game is won, it does not do anyone any good. There is too much poverty in this world and too many heroes, that find, it hard to grind a existence to se so much of this foolishness of calling a foot ball kicker a hereo only because he can kick a foot ball good. It must be discouraging to many worthy students to look at papers and see nothing about a college except about a lot of overgrown boys mauling each other...
Pergolesi.--"Se...
...business or employment which is not per se public in character may in the process of time affect public interest and so justifiably be subject to public control and regulation. The courts have always held that when any business or occupation does affect public interest, the person or corporation engaged in it must serve all alike and shall receive a fair and reasonable return for service rendered...