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Word: strongly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...encouraging to see the interest in field sports which this school has always been famous for. The "Eleven" is unusually good this year, and under its able captain is playing a wonderfully strong game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/21/1875 | See Source »

...students, I fear, for the most part confine themselves to reading the Nation every week and to adopting its opinions, so that there is very little originality shown, and, worse than that, we are very apt to be imbued with the gloominess of that excellent paper, which has so strong a fancy for looking at the dark side of a picture. This is very unfortunate, for it is mournful to think of the future of a country whose educated men, before they begin life, look upon the best political career as an endless struggle against corruption and ignorance. On this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A HARVARD UNION. | 5/7/1875 | See Source »

...best authority. However, it rests with each captain to pull the stroke that pleases him best, and the result of the races will judge it. Of the Matthews Six it is difficult to say much. They are more irregular than the other crews; but they look remarkably strong and capable of quantities of hard work. They are, by all odds, the heaviest crew. If the next three weeks' work brings them together, we venture to predict for them a front place in the race. The Weld crew are pulling the most finished stroke of any; how effective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/7/1875 | See Source »

...habit of reading poetry, perhaps because it is often both tame and dull; if so, we can assure them that it is quite different with this book, for there is scarcely a line which does not seem to be filled with the natural outburst of a strong, enduring heart, the home of noble thoughts. We are sorry that the printer's work has been so badly done, for the numerous errors in that respect are sometimes serious obstacles to the pleasure of reading. The second edition should be more carefully prepared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/7/1875 | See Source »

...serious danger. He himself did not then appreciate his condition, perhaps even he never appreciated it; and it was against his wishes that a physician was at last summoned. Everything that friends and physicians could do for him was done; but weakness and disease had taken too strong a hold upon his frame to be dislodged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/26/1875 | See Source »

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