Word: well
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...them; but his old weakness for singing false has become chronic, and sometimes exhibits itself in a most exasperating manner: witness, the sextette in "Lucia," on Monday night. Mr. Joseph Maas is not a good actor as yet, but has a serviceable tenor voice, fresh, strong, and reasonably well cultivated. Mr. Clarke, the third tenor or falsetto or whatever he is to be called, acts poorly and walks in a waddle; his voice does not show traces of overwork. Mr. Carlton, the baritone, though now affected and awkward in his acting, gives promise of becoming one of the best American...
...more systematic mode of thought and study, and the required studies of the first year are made as general as possible, to enable one to choose the course of study which suits him best. There are very few, if any, fitting schools in which all branches are taught as well as in a university like Harvard. A man may come to college with the impression that he is fitted for a mathematical course of study, because he was, perhaps, under a good instructor in Arithmetic, and stood well in his class. But this does not prove conclusively that...
...well take this occasion to renew our thanks to our undergraduate contributors, and to bespeak their support in the future. We have been pleased to notice increasing contributions from Freshmen, many of which, however, the character of the subject or the looseness of expression prevents us from publishing. A little more care in composition, in order not to conceal the real thought of an article under a multiplicity of words, would greatly improve the majority of Freshman contributions. Let them not think us ungrateful or hypercritical, but let them persevere in their kind efforts...
...High School, published at Omaha, is a large and well-printed sheet, but entirely devoted to educational matters, and is of little interest to the general reader...
...Well, well, I 'm heart-whole still...