Word: thinge
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...came down, I resolved on a bold move in the face of the enemy, and asked the fair Miss Ethel if she would go with my detachment, and was bearing her off in triumph when the dragon stopped us with hurried explanations that a cutter-sleigh was the coldest thing in the world, and that Ethel could not bear it; in fine, that she, the Widow Earl, would and should sacrifice herself and ride with...
...They don't look at all like the Harvard men one meets in town. See this one," - she was looking at me, - "poor thing, how sore his eyes...
...obtaining it. I hastily reviewed in my mind the three years I had already gone over, and thought how many mistakes I had made. Why had I not chosen different electives in many cases? "To be sure," said I to my chum, "the elective system is a fine thing, but one does not always know which is the best (i. e. the easiest) course to pursue." I have it now, though, a happy thought has just struck me; indeed, I wonder that the thought never came to any one else. Our great system of education is not complete...
...principal difficulty would be with the Catholic help, whose church-going would be somewhat interfered with. The Directors strangely argue that the change would do no good, because men would come at the last minute, at half past nine, as they do now at nine. But this very thing would show that the late hour is desired, since so many men improve the extra time thus given them. No one wants the doors kept open half an hour longer simply that he may get there half an hour before they are closed. The question, at any rate...
Before my eyes a dream, a thing...