Word: similarity
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...beginning of the dissertation pick out a brilliant passage from your Sophomore themes. This will attract attention; and if it seem abrupt, the objection against abrupt beginnings is not well founded. [See Hill's Rhet., Book II. Chap. VI.] A similar quotation somewhat longer and, if possible, more brilliant will make a good conclusion. The intervening part, the body of the dissertation, should be carefully arranged, and have several marked divisions. Such divisions encourage the reader, for, without counting the remaining pages, he can see that he is drawing nearer the end; and they also are extremely handy when...
...carriages to the ball-ground, and throughout the game were treated with a courtesy which might be imitated to advantage by the spectators who sometimes throng Holmes Field. In the evening, the musical societies gave a concert in honor of the guests, and the following day was marked by similar attentions. A large body of the college accompanied the Nine to the cars, and attested their friendship for the visitors with enthusiastic cheers. Such an evidence of the good-feeling which exists between Princeton and Harvard is very gratifying, and we feel sure that Harvard men will be ready...
...years, rated, on a subsequent consultation of the "curve," at nearly plus 40, we begin to fear that even equations and curves may err. We trust other instructors, seeing that the curve is for once wrong, will be led to overlook their mid-year calculations, and perhaps make a similar pleasing correction...
...have ever been employed in or about boats or in manual labor; or be a mechanic, artisan, or laborer." This tells the whole story. The English fear crews like the Watkins Glen, the Nautilus, the Beaverwycks, etc., etc., and have so worded their definition as to exclude these and similar crews from Henley, and restrict the regatta to 'gentlemen' entries, and proves what we said in our last, in regard to the definition, to be true...
...desirable to read a passage which is merely indecent; but to omit one simply on account of a word which is not used in society, is certainly straining the point a little. It is like the use of "limb" for "leg," "retire" for "go to bed," and other similar absurdities, and reminds me of Moliere's prude, who had the bare limbs in pictures carefully covered...