Word: whether
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that has been so thoroughly exhausted of late years that I will not bore you by entering upon it. I shall only advise you to avoid what I call gentlemen ladies, - the converse of ladies' men, - fair creatures who are more popular with our sex than with their own. Whether truly or not, it always seems to me that they accommodate themselves to us instead of making us accommodate ourselves to them; and therefore that they are not particularly useful for your purpose...
...meeting of the class now recognize, after painful experience, the fact that arguments are of no avail. The next step in the matter will be taken by those who support the officers elect, who will fill the vacant offices from their own ranks. The rest of the class - whether that be a majority or a minority is not now known - will then probably take some independent action...
...instructor paid to do the thinking for every idiot who can't do it for himself. So I answer, "I don't know," and he straightway wants to know why I don't know. Now what fellow can be expected to know why he don't know whether it will rain...
...things will certainly be done, - either a new election, perfectly open and free, will be attempted, or the class will split on the rock and graduate without organization. Their final action in this matter is of importance to all succeeding classes, for it will virtually decide the question whether united action is possible in classes so large as ours have become and among men who differ so completely in all their views of life...
...matter of principle not to come out before the last car and it was still early, I started immediately for Cambridge. As soon as I was seated in the horse-car I returned to my philosophical cogitations. I labored mentally on many deep metaphysical themes; I reasoned with myself whether I existed or not; I reflected on such subjects as abstract truth, and the immensity of space. So lost was I in my ponderings that I was surprised when the conductor called out "Harvard Square." I started up, and was going out, when I heard a young lady opposite...