Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...intention of running cars again to-day, and without interruption, hereafter. The strike will probably not last over two or three days more. The company is determined not to yield; the strikers cannot prevent their places being filled by new men; and violence never is an ultimately successful thing, especially if it is illegally resorted to. In three days the strikers will have either gone back to their posts, or will have none to go back to; their only satisfaction and that a brief one, will be to see the green conductors ringing the bell-punch to stop...
...know that many other students agree with me in this matter. They not only think the new system no improvement, but they thing it in every way inferior...
...relic of the percentage system which still leaves the class division a truly arbitrary thing is an indication of transtion only. We are confident that when '89 has graduated the notions of per cents will have entirely disappeared...
...glad that card-playing is not prevalent at Bates. Such an operation may do for gamblers and black legs, but for honest, intelligent young men, it is not the thing. It may do for the starved in soul and intellect, but college students should find some amusement better fitted to their station than shuffling a pack of greasy cards. - Ex. And this too, from a Western college paper...
Such was the origin of our boating here, which was to ripen later into the H. U. B. C. Of course no such thing as an inter-collegiate race ever entered into the heads of those who took part in these races. They engaged in them simply for the fun of the thing, and underwent no severe system of training such as is now in vogue at present. They frequently made excursions in their boats, and occasionally were accompanied by ladies. But in 1851 they were taken by surprise in this way, - Yale had heard that Harvard owned an eight...