Word: thinge
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...exclaimed the ranger, starting back in surprise, "don't use it?" "No, never." "Don't you use it in no form whatever?" "No, I don't." "Well, then," returned the man, eying Mr. H. with a suspicious look, "there's one thing; I wouldn't trust you nigh my whiskey bottle...
...used to be customary for a boy on promotion to the Fifth Form to give a supper in his room; and afterwards to recite a satirical ode, passing comments on all the other fellows in his boarding house. These productions were often very coarse, for it was an understood thing that the authors of them were never to be molested by those whom they abused. Gladstone in his Fifth Form poem eschewed all personalities, but conveyed his opinion with great vigor on some of the abuses rife in the school, and in particular on cruelties that used to be practiced...
...colleges none is so false or so pernicious as the idea that the majority of the students give too much time to athletics. The truth is just the other way. The athletes in a class of 200 or over can generally be counted on one's fingers. The worst thing about college athletics is that they are shared in by so few that they have very little influence in improving the health of the students. Well directed physical exercise is absolutely essential to a brain-worker, and until our colleges supply this they do only a part of their duty...
...strange contrast with this is that case which occurred last year, when a student in one of the German courses received the maximum mark of 100, and yet for the same theses received under the head of forensics less than 95! Here we have the tables turned. Two things seem certain from these facts, namely, that instructors should remember that it is a difficult thing to get the maximum mark in forensics, and that the same scale should be used in all other departments for marking forensics that is used in the English department, so that the rank list...
...West Point to visit Harvard and Yale, a prominent army officer is reported as saying : "This may be considered a new departure, but the world moves, and we must keep abreast of the spirit of the age. It is desirable that West Point should avail itself of every thing which is commended and indorsed by the experience of our leading institutions of learning...