Word: though
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Though twinkling from afar...
...viewed as an event of any importance, and we have therefore great reason to congratulate ourselves on our good fortune in obtaining such efficient officers. Once elected, those officers are, in an official capacity, completely separated from their fellow-boarders; they become absolute, as regards these latter, though they are fettered in some most important respects by the restrictions which the Corporation has been able to impose, while obtaining from us, at the same time, what would seem to be a most profitable investment for their money...
...receptions. The delightful little essay on Censure Marks becomes almost poetical in its phraseology, and but for a few slight trips in metre and a superfluous line we might be deceived into reading it as a sonnet. The directness and conciseness of the writing cannot be too much praised, though we could wish that the word shall might give way to the gentle "may" or to the potential and insinuating...
...word of praise that most curiously interesting "Vassar Manual."* It is not a new work, but has been recently discovered and reprinted, and around its contents cling the air and spirit of a bygone age. Its real date must be far earlier than that assigned by the title-page, though this may very well be the true date of a modern reprint. That this curious collection of brief essays, sonnets, epigrams, and oracular injunctions was intended for a most limited circulation, we infer from the direction on the cover of our copy, "Not to be taken from Room...
...this latter class which particularly delights the credulous inhabitants of Boston, who, though they are not as a general rule inclined to place implicit belief in newspaper statements, still are perfectly willing to accept as truth any statement concerning college or collegians, and the more absurd and outrageous it is the better are they pleased...