Word: verbal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Handicaps. According to a verbal agreement with the President of the H. A. A., a set of prizes for handicap races will be offered on Friday afternoon, April 29. These races will, we believe, consist of a mile walk, mile run, 100-yards, 120-yards hurdles, and quarter-mile. Particulars and date of entries' closing will be given later...
This may be good or bad, and may be ascribed to such and such causes, as superficial ideas, lack of enthusiasm, pessimism of the Nation, or what not. This, however, is the mere appearance of indifference. With regard to real indifference which is the matter discussed, it is mere verbal gymnastics to call it anything else than laziness. There is individual indifference to mathematics or philosophy, resulting from mental characteristics, which of course is not termed laziness; but, these differences cancelling each other in one college as compared to another, there is that general trait whose causes may only...
Could I recall the various titles under which such critical articles have appeared in our papers in the past, I am confident a reperusal of them would not only suggest a pleasing verbal dress for more such criticisms, but would stimulate the expression of them from the students of extensive or careful reading...
...verbal...