Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...item of $161 was paid back to a committee which thought last spring that it had enough money to pay for running the launch, but found last autumn, after the launch-running season was over, that it didn't have enough money after all. Is this "apparent" or real carelessness...
Excuse my trespassing upon your space, but I thought it was only just to explain the apparent carelessness which your statement of yesterday implied...
...review of George Meredith. The writer seems fairly to have overstepped the usual limitations of college literary work, though the fairness of his judgment is somewhat hampered by his inability to recognize the faults of his author. The sketch entitled "Maurice Grande's Wife," suffers much from cruelty of thought and expression, and the theme is far from elevating or interesting. "The Mill of the Gods," is a fanciful piece well told in few and well-chosen words...
...full-pitched ball; yet your fellows often missed them." A smile passed round among the base-ball players and their friends. "Any one can hit a full-pitched ball, can he? What do you say to that, Fothergill? Can any one hit one of your curves?" Fothergill rather thought not; and considering that an income about ten times as large as an English curate's is paid a first-class pitcher in America, it will be readily understood that if any one could knock their pitching about at pleasure, they would be rather costly at that price. The Englishmen, however...
...wish to call the attention of all the seniors to the rehearsals, which are now taking place, of the class song. Of late years these rehearsals have been more or less neglected by the seniors, who apparently have thought them of little importance. But there is no reason why the song should not be a success this year, and be one of the important features of the day. The rehearsals are very short and will not cause a very great loss of time to the busiest man. Let all go to the rehearsal to-day and thereby accomplish two things...