Word: showing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...more useful to the world than if his tastes and inclinations were fettered by business. But he must never be idle. Noblesse oblige. He must constantly exert himself to maintain with dignity the position to which he lays claim; and in his whole life he must show to the world the fallacy of the popular notion that all that is needed to make an American a gentleman is a little knowledge of wine, a little knowledge of women, a little knowledge of song, and a very thorough knowledge of athletic exercises...
...devoted patriot and friend of John Hancock, was elected President, but his inauguration was omitted on account of the commotions of the period. The students were by no means unanimous in their patriotism, for history records that some of the Tories used to drink India tea in commons to show their loyalty, and that this occasioned some trouble among the students. After the battle of Lexington the militia began to concentrate at Cambridge, and the students were ordered to leave. Some of the buildings were turned into barracks for the soldiers, and the officers were quartered in private houses...
Have I his picture ? Yes, I have; but 't is n't very good. The man that took it did it, though, as nicely as he could. It was a pleasant-spoken man, that turned up years ago, Who cut folks out in paper, and put black behind to show. But Grandsir Peavy 'd lost his nose, and so the picture's queer...
...more fortunate, obtaining four runs entirely by errors. This lead was kept throughout, but greatly augmented by an addition of eight runs in one innings. The Yale Nine outbatted us, but in the field had quite a number of errors, though not equalling our number, as the score will show. In the field, Smith, - who took Morgan's place behind the bat on account of the latter's lameness, - Carter, and Downer distinguished themselves, the latter taking a very difficult left-hand catch on first base. For Harvard the playing of Richards, Albert, and Mead was excellent, while Harding surpassed...
...improbable, however, that we shall have the use, this vacation, of a telescope potent over both distance and intervening objects, we must content ourselves with what our eyes may show us. Probably many do not realize what a fund of pleasure can be obtained by the unobtrusive use of the eyes, joined to an average share of imagination. To pass through Boston Common, even, on a pleasant, summer evening about dusk, when so many hearts are lost and won, will give an observing man much food for reflection on the proportion maintained between the three factors,-the social status...