Word: showing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Anything in the Yankee Show line is very distasteful to most Harvard men, and Previous to the spelling mania we had supposed that an invitation to become the puppets of the show would have been indignantly refused by every...
...dearest dreams are often blighted, as my experience will show...
...have introduced this rather long account to show it was to supply a want really felt that this custom has originated, and the reality of this want might be testified by the example of a number of gentlemen who, in middle life, have undertaken to make up the class-book neglected by their class when in College. But there are reasons, in re ipsa, amply sufficient to lead a thoughtful man to spend the half-hour necessary to answer the questions asked. Very few of us will be great men, but almost all will have descendants, either...
...Before the Courier comments on any other sheet, let it show a cleaner face and more intelligence than can be shook out of the aggregate calibre of the half-dozen human puppets who form its editorial staff...
...unhappy Courier are bores; but think it unfair for the Chronicle to expect a clean face to be "shook" (shade of Lindley Murray!) out of the barrel of a gun. And let the Chronicle editors have care, lest, in their anxiety to prove themselves men, they fail to show themselves gentlemen...