Word: solely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Comedy of Errors" impresses one as a clever bit of character-delineation - certainly as good a piece of prose as there is in the eighth number of the Advocate. In the mutual misunderstanding of the man and the woman, who are the sole human characters of the sketch, we recognize certain phases of the story of Beatrice and Benedict - modernized. What constitutes the chief charm of the sketch is the directness of thought and expression, terseness in phrasing, and the simplicity shown in introducing perhaps the most important character of the tale, Chimborazo, the match-making...
2tFOR SALE. - Fine Stewart banjo and sole-leather case; in fine condition. Cost $25. Will sell for $17. Address, 27 Holyoke House...
...unexpected quarter. The number of men engaged in athletics and the number of contests had been constantly increasing since 1880. The Athletic Committee had looked upon this as a subject for congratulation, but many old graduates, who could remember the days when the race with Yale was the sole undergraduate contest, began to take alarm. Their fears for the future of the college resulted, in the spring of '88, in the appointment of a committee of the Overseers, charged with investigating the whole matter. Four of the five members of this committee recommended to the Overseers that all intercollegiate contests...
...other possessions. Until the ninth century, Norway consisted of many small States, subject to the will of a bold peasantry. But in the middle of the following century the governing power fell into fewer hands, and the Vikings began their explorations. When Harold came into power be desired sole dominion and wished to rule Norway alone. He gave the Chieftain's choice of exile or vassalage. During his time Iceland was discovered and many emigrations were made there. It received various names from the explorers, but one chieftain finally called it Iceland because of the great prevalence...
...which has been little understood, though the law seems perfectly plain on this subject. On the 15th of March, 1843, the House of Representatives submitted to the Supreme Court of Massachusetts the following question: "Is a residence at a public institution, in any town in this Commonwealth, for the sole purpose of obtaining an education, a residence within the meaning of the constitution, which gives a person, who has his means of support from another place, either within or without this Commonwealth, a right to vote, or subjects him to the liability to pay taxes in such town?" The answer...