Word: surely
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...also what can be inferred from these facts? In the classics, especially, is there room for grumbling; in history there is less occasion for it; elective philosophy I have not tried. Modern languages, as required studies, were the merest farces; as electives, some have a bad reputation. To be sure, these are general accusations; yet they are echoes of quiet conversations around the grate, in which special charges are made, and many examples of inefficiency adduced...
...testing the respective merits of the two Nines. Leaving out of the question the advantage gained by the club on whose grounds the single game is played, there are many benefits which accrue to each college from a series. By this plan, the friends of each college are sure to see one of the games played on their own grounds, and so, of course, more interest is excited; besides, a more extended intercourse between the members of the two colleges is thereby promoted, and this surely ought to have a good effect in turning the spirit of bitter enmity, which...
...chills. Would not the distribution of rooms be made more equable than it now is, if classes should have their choices in the order of seniority? That is, let Juniors have the first choice, Sophomores the second, and so on. In this way every individual would be comparatively sure of enjoying a comfortable room for some part of his course, and we should not find the blessings heaped upon one class of men, and the evils upon another, for the whole four years, as may now happen...
...support armies; he creates navies. He buys a line of steamers, comprising the finest boats in the country; but their chief value to him, after all, is in adding to the many titles he already enjoys the new one of Admiral. He drives a team which he is sure cannot be excelled in Gotham, and confidently believes not much inferior to that of Phoebus himself. In these and many other pursuits, besides his own regular and legitimate calling, undertaken less for pleasure than for notoriety, he has succeeded in producing upon the staid plodding men of our day an impression...
...else. The pretty girl before noticed is now reciting, and he improves the opportunity of striking an acquaintance by the somewhat peculiar style of conversation resulting under these circumstances. He asks many questions which he remembers as having troubled him once, but the answers he is by no means sure of. Fortunately, however, the teacher relieves him from any embarrassment which might result from his not knowing the answers to his own questions, by adopting that system of leading questions and suggestive side-hints, always at the command of teachers for the benefit of their pet classes in general...