Word: well
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Copeland began his lecture last evening by dividing the consideration of his subject into three parts-first, Emerson and Carlyle as men; second, as writers; third as moralists and teachers. The two men were widely different in the circumstances of their birth, ancestry, and early life. Emerson, the well-bern and liberally-trained, descendant of a long line of New England ministers, belonged definitely to the class of gentle-folk. Carlyle, although he was a graduate of Edinburgh University, and became the chief English man of letters, was a Scottish peasant by birth, and remained in some ways a peasant...
Vicksburg was especially strong, the Gibralter of America. Impregnable on the river front, with its steep descent, it was protected by a maze of swamps on the north and rough coutry everywhere else. The strong outposts, Haines's Bluff, and Grand Gulf, above and below well guarded its flanks...
...resolutions of the great body of students to give this year's ball team hearty support. The Athletic Committee in making their choice should weigh the advantage in favor of a player of proved ability of almost the unanimous support of the graduates and undergraduates against such objections, not well substantiated, as slowness or "lack of head...
Debating in Princeton has always aroused a great amount of interest. The Lynde debate at commencemet and the '76 Prize Debate on Washington's Birthday are well attended and vigorously contested. However, the interest has never before reached the height that it did in the last three weeks. The men who represented the college in the debate with Yale on last Friday were among the very best thinkers and speakers in the college, and the undergraduates and all, notwithstanding the admitted fact that Princeton had the worst side of the question, had the greatest confidence in the ability...
...committee at present is not to create a sentiment in favor of the proposed club, except so far as the project commends itself. What they are trying to get at now is what the members of the University actually think of the plan. The latter has been well stated by a graduate interested in the movement in these words: "We aim simply at giving a definite amount of convenience for a definite annual sum; we don't dream of manufacturing sociability; but we believe that if eight hundred or more men find a University club worth ten dollars a year...