Word: till
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...short time ago the following inscription: "What is Physics? Ans. - The inness of the why, or x plus y equals z. Each young woman passing to her accustomed seat seemed to drink in considerable consolation from the words which met her shy and innocent glance. But it was not till the professor in the middle of a profound and lengthy explanation caught sight of and succeeded in translating it that much difficulty was experienced in keeping up an equilibrium...
...trees and shrubs which number over two thousand varieties. There is no one collection in the world which contains so many varieties. Their arrangement is also excellent. In one row we can trace the apple as it first existed in Central Asia up through varieties to the crab apple; till finally it reaches the ordinary American apple...
Sophomore themes VI and VII will not be returned till after the mid-years...
There is one cheerful side in their delay in this matter, and that is that they may possibly wait with their decision till the time comes when Harvard will have approached so near to the ideal standard of the German University, that marks and examinations will be unknown...
...take my note book and try to write, but the sun comes blazing down on the back of my head and neck till my eyes swim and I wonder whether my hair will be light pink or blue the next day. This may sound fearful, but I have got such severe headaches from this tri-weekly broiling that I prefer to cut and grind up the course in the library rather than attend the lectures. A few curtains will not impoverish our lords and masters, and will cure the defect; - why can't they be hung there at once, especially...