Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Dixey in turn impersonates a statue, a village belle, Mr. Irving, a barber, and a dry goods clerk with infinite ease and cleverness. Mr. Richards' imitations of Couldock and Bouccicault are exceedingly laughable. There is no lack of pretty music, pretty faces and pretty figures. Adonis is like Venice - "See it and die; for you have then seen...
...university next month will be a centre of interest throughout the country, every success will be more highly appreciated, and any possible failure will only be brought into greater prominence. It is not only a duty, it should be a pleasure to every member of the university to see the highest possible success attained. The slight personal expenses to be incurred should not influence men to the detriment of the plan in so much as similar expenses are incurred periodically for a purpose far less worthy. If a campaign procession is possible once in four years, what need we urge...
What I want to see done away with is the officially organized untruth, which excites my indignation every time I have to carry it into execution; every professor twice a year testifies that dozens of students have been present at his lectures, who, he knows, have never set foot in his room. It has happened repeatedly that students guilelessly presented to me Professor Eck's Pandects for me to sign, thereby admitting that they did not know either Professor Eck or me by sight...
...though Professor Garman assured us that in a practically air-tight jar it did not require to be changed more than once in twenty years. Reptiles will keep for an indefinite number of years in this way, though they lose their lustre and brilliancy. It is wonderful to see the minute differences, of seven seales more or less on the head, the number of vertebrae in the spinal column, the rake of a fin - which go to determine the difference between one specie and another. The fangs of snakes are also curious things, those of the water-moccasin being...
...wish the preachers in charge every success in their work, and feel assured that each success will be secured to them. It is, moreover, an imperative duty upon the part of the students to see that success assured through their own voluntary action...