Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...seen if the victories of American riflemen in the great International matches of 1876 and 1877 have given any enthusiasm more lasting than that of momentary pleasure at the American victories to our undergraduates. If it has, will they not join the Rifle Club? and if they think that club, in its present condition, is undeserving of their support, will they not by their efforts improve...
...endowment of instruction and research (not separately, but together), the acquisition of grounds, buildings, collections, and instruments, and the enlargement of their means of providing a gratuitous education for promising young men of slender means. When these more pressing objects are accomplished, they may, perhaps, begin to think of offering money-prizes, accessible to rich or poor, for notable attainments at school and at the university, and of providing for the comfortable support of able young men, rich or poor, for several years after they have left the university; unless, in the mean time, they should have come...
Columbia-Oxford. Bell's Life says of this race: "If the only question on which depends the race between these Universities is that of championship, we think neither this nor any other contest can take place until American rowing assumes a far different aspect from that which now exists. As matters stand, no college crew can lay claim to the championship...
SMITH is one of those quiet fellows who always agree with you, never putting forward any decided views of their own, and whom for that reason you think remarkably sensible. I always supposed him to be rather conservative in his views; but I discovered my mistake the other day. It happened thus...
...found the thing more trouble than I expected," he said, "but I finally struck upon something that I think will suit you. Here's the one about the Library...