Word: thems
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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"THE Forty-Second Congress contained ten graduates of Yale and three of Harvard." - Record. Such a candid confession goes far toward disarming criticism. Indeed, we half believe that the natural tendencies of this unfortunate ten incited them to their disreputable courses, almost as much as the effect of four years...
IT has often been remarked by persons of observation and experience, when speaking of those who are called popular men in college, that they obtain their position by "being politic," that is, by seizing all opportunities of insinuating themselves into the good graces of their companions, embracing all occasions of...
We meet these politic individuals in almost every walk of life, and are often astonished at their success; we see them amongst the mercantile classes, find them in congressional assemblies, note them amongst the aspirants after the chief places in societies and associations, Christian, scientific, or literary, and discover them...
EVERY year, or, at the most, every five years, witnesses the rise and fall of a popular poet. His coming is as certain as that of a financial panic, rather more frequent, and, in its way, almost as disastrous; but, though his end is often pitiable, he enjoys, for a...
To accomplish all this, the Society has been at an expense of between four and five hundred dollars, more than half of which was subscribed at the meeting at which the change was decided upon, and the balance was forthcoming in so generous a manner as to give the strongest...