Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...satisfaction we have counted, near Gray, five narrow planks, so skilfully arranged that he who steps thereon repents with wet feet. We have lost a fruitful subject for each number, but is our loss any one's gain? The intention of the College was doubtless good. We hope to see the yard paved with more such good intentions...
...writer in the Courant first attacks the statement that "the examination for admission to Harvard College is at least one year's study higher in standard than the admission examination of any other college in the country," etc. (See Report, page 11.) To disprove this he brings forward a copy of an examination paper on Latin composition, which has in its foot-notes Latin equivalents for most of the English words in the text. He leaves his readers to infer from this single copy that all examination papers presented to candidates for admission to Harvard are of a similar easy...
...others you may see...
...back roads, how you straightened up as you drove down into the village, and reasoned with that horse (illustrating liberally with cuts) to so good purpose that he tore through the main street of the village at a rate that brought half the population to the doors to see your skilful handling of the impetuous steed, the kindling of whose sudden fire they fortunately did not witness. And how about your waiting that Sunday till service had begun, and then marching down to the front of the broad-aisle with - No, I will stop. You evidently have none...
...gets out of his old ruts and among people where his superiority is in some respects tacitly acknowledged, you shall observe, even in him, the universal Jim-Fisk showing symptoms of his presence. He has a friend teaching school in this same country town, upon whom he calls. See him when, before he enters in front of the assembled school, he stops and furtively brushes his beaver, and dusts off his boots. Ah! he has the disease. See him mount the platform and sit down, composedly throwing back the lappel of his coat. See him coolly adjust his eye-glasses...