Word: whatness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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DEAR MAGENTA, - I regret having been compelled to leave so long unnoticed a recent contribution to the Advocate commenting on, or rather criticising, my article on Bulwer. This would-be critic opens with, and again repeats, an opinion that my ideas are wholly erroneous concerning two, at least, of Bulwer...
The Advocate's correspondent would have obliged me much more had he desisted from a criticism of my view of what is at best an open question, and had he corrected a mistake which I must beg permission to do myself. I relied on an imperfect memory when I stated...
But, bad as we are, we are not much worse than our brethren of the other great college, at New Haven. To be sure they are more punctilious,-do they not "retire" when we "go to bed"?-but this is a trifling matter. Here, then, are more Unitarians, there more...
Instructor (to Fresh. who cannot transfer The king flees into the present tense). Insert has, and what will it become? Fresh. (confidently). The king has flees. - Yale Record.
To conclude, in what we have said it has not been intended to slight the claims of the gymnasium, but simply to say a word for another kind of exercise, which is a favorite with many, but by others is looked on as of little importance.