Word: showing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...independent" man who does all this would be a cross between a boor and a fool. When "Ossip" shows the necessary connection between independence and such actions he certainly will show how unsatisfactory a thing independence is; but in the mean while the old prejudice in favor of it will remain...
...ladies, long ago. You shall hear him say at dinner that he went to the punch just to look on. On the same evening he will tell the boys that he was full of Bacchus; and then he will wake the midnight echoes of the quiet old town, to show them "how we men do it at the University." But don't imagine that even his happiness is complete. He is worrying to-day about the best way of breaking to his mother the fact that he has learned to smoke...
...want to show us round the Library? I 'll give you a quarter...
...system of education is not complete, as has heretofore been supposed. One thing is wanting to perfect the plan, and consummate our boasted liberality. In short, all we need is a professor of phrenology. Nay, do not be startled; this is truly an original idea, and, moreover, I will show you the utility of my proposition. I affirm that no man ought to be allowed to choose his own electives. The professor of phrenology should do it for him. Only picture to yourself a student having his head manipulated by my ideal professor, who thus comments on the capacities...
...difficulty would be with the Catholic help, whose church-going would be somewhat interfered with. The Directors strangely argue that the change would do no good, because men would come at the last minute, at half past nine, as they do now at nine. But this very thing would show that the late hour is desired, since so many men improve the extra time thus given them. No one wants the doors kept open half an hour longer simply that he may get there half an hour before they are closed. The question, at any rate...