Word: stands
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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After dinner I sit down by a mast and study Herbert Spencer on Style. (N. B. I was conditioned in Rhetoric.) Presently a very common-looking man shouts out, "Stand by to hoist that Spencer." Thinking he refers to my book, I secrete it in my coat-pocket. Several sailors pull at a rope and a sail goes up. The men utter such discordant cries during the process that I go to the captain and complain. He tells me to telegraph to New York and have them dismissed. I ask him in what part of the ship the telegraph-office...
...blue vacancy beneath. Herbert Spencer drives his staff through the thin stratum of drifted words, of consolidated forms of thought, of congealed tradition which we have felt to be so solid beneath our feet, and bids us look and see the fathomless depths of the unknowable above which we stand...
...stand upon the threshold of a new era in College reforms. This year will witness the success or failure of an important change in the College system, - the voluntary attendance for the Senior Class. Our Dean has addressed a Circular to all the members of the class, urging punctuality at the beginning of the term, and inflicting heavy penalties for non-appearance. This suggests an important feature of the reform: the success of the experiment is as dependent upon the Students as upon the Faculty. Without hearty co-operation on our side, the measure will fall to the ground, despite...
...carriages or teams will be allowed in the Yard after 12 M., and none will be allowed to stand in the Yard at any time...
...student and troublesome to the instructor, but that injustice to a good scholar might sometimes follow from its rigorous enforcement is certainly possible. It is to be remarked, however, that it is possible for an absentee to attain the maximum mark by allowing the subject of the examination to stand against him as a condition, "to be removed in the usual way." It is, moreover, probable that a large proportion, if not a majority, of the cases of excused absentees will be unaffected by the sixty per cent maximum provision, since the marking will be done on a scale...