Word: thinge
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...little learning is a dangerous thing...
...apparently firm conviction that this race is to be henceforth and forever rowed at Springfield; and we do not believe with him that the fact that anything is done or left undone in the annual contest between Oxford and Cambridge is in itself sufficient reason that the same thing be done or left undone in the contest between Yale and Harvard. The article, however, contains good and pertinent ideas, and we commend it to the attention of the Executive Committee...
...seems a pity when Lampy has got hold of a good thing, he can't make the best of it, even if it is not original...
...they 're fitted for and what they ain't. Now I, sir, who have been a professor of this science for thirty-seven years and eight months will unfold to you, for the paltry sum of fifty cents, truths about yourself worth millions. Here, sir, is the most valuable thing you ever...
...minds of the scandalized exposers of college corruption that the majority of us are real good fellows who are trying faithfully to smother all the vice that is in our midst; that our instructors are Christian gentlemen who are ably seconding our efforts; and that the most discouraging thing we have to contend with is the ungenerous action of those who raise their virtuous voices to call in the public, whenever our efforts have for a moment hailed...