Word: thing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...last car" is a thing of the past. Hereafter, cars will leave Harvard Square on the hour and Bowdoin Square on the half-hour, during the night...
...Intercollegiate Athletic Association, which some ten or twelve colleges joined, and it was at Saratoga last year that this association met for the first time as a regular College organization. The tournaments in the Gymnasium were instituted last year; these contests were generally thought to be an excellent thing in affording an additional opportunity to men of matching themselves, and in giving them more practice for the Saratoga meetings; the number of entries was large and encouraging: this, last year. But now we are sorry to be obliged to confess that, up to the time of going to press...
Thus shall I grow, like every living thing...
...wise enough to suggest a complete remedy, but of one thing I am convinced; more time ought to be given to review in class. Here the instructor might pass rapidly over the past work, emphasizing the salient points only, and bringing into clear relief those facts and principles necessary to an intelligent understanding of the subject. Without such guidance the student may wander fruitlessly among the treasures of Rome, not knowing that he stands before the masterpieces of Michael Angelo and Raphael...
...remarked that the quotation, "A prophet," etc., is from the New Testament, - quite a different thing from the "Hebrew Scripture...