Word: thinge
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...uninitiated the anguish that visits the mind of the ordinary college student when engaged in writing letters is something more readily imagined than described. Letter-writing is such an exceedingly difficult thing that the Faculty should institute a course of electives in that subject, uniting it, of course, with a carefully selected set of prescribed studies, and requiring of the student at least an hour's work in the gymnasium daily. This would insure a clear mind, and would furnish the student with all the muscular development necessary to the undertaking of such a colossal task. Even old Hercules himself...
...very neat thing in gravestones has been discovered in New Hampshire. The stone is surmounted by a hand, pointing upwards; beneath may be read these lines: "Gone...
...descriptive verse, when suddenly the lovers appear on the scene, and the author abruptly turns from Wordsworth to Dante-Gabriel Rossetti. Having fitted up his paradise, he introduces Eve; and we should infer from the following lines that lilacs, and not fig-leaves, were at present the correct thing...
From the very start Holworthy seemed to have the race in their own hands, though they by no means had a "hollow thing of it." At the end of the first half-mile Holworthy were timed at thirty-three strokes to the minute, Weld at thirty-five and one half, Matthews thirty-five and one half, and Holyoke at thirty-six and one half...
...conversation at the club where they talk metaphysics turned on the affections. Spake a Senior: "What do you know about love, Miss H.? Do you believe there is any such thing as love?" "O," says she, "you come around to my room some time, Mr. B., and we'll talk it over." - Michigan University Chronicle...