Word: stands
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...armchair? Thanks, but stand he'd rather...
Another point in which many publishers fail, nay, to use a plain Anglo-Saxon word, cheat, is in the binding. It ought to be a point of honor among bookmakers to put in the market books that will stand at least one perusal without coming to pieces. But such is often not the case. One New York house, in particular, seems to do no more than throw the leaves of their books together. I picked up a book in the Library today which, though quite new, already showed signs of disintegration, and guessed at first glance from what house...
...raillery, and the system of society elections and class politics meets with vehement abuse. Writing on such matters is absurd. We know, all of us, that our "systems," like all others, have their faults; we know, too, that to attempt to revolutionize them would be ridiculous. As matters stand at present, classes get on smoothly enough; then why try, by circulating discontented and inflammatory ideas, to create dissension and ill-feeling among the different sets in a class? We are very much obliged to all who favor us with contributions, and hope that the writers to whom we have alluded...
...member of the society which he criticised, knew very little about that which he discussed; and then, in the second place, we regard college societies as strictly private bodies, responsible for their actions only to the Faculty and to themselves; and if they choose to elect men who can stand on their heads and to leave out those who cannot, it is no one's business but their own. We consider it no more our province to pass judgment on the action of societies than to publish the fact that Mr. A of '74 is a fool, that...
...Here stand I, the shadow-footed...