Word: whether
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...will be seen in another part of the paper, it depends only on the student whether Alumni Hall shall be used as a refectory next year...
...whether gay or sad, obscure or famous...
...ever to be regretted war from which we have just emerged has apparently opened our eyes. The question is now asked whether our system of national education possesses in reality all the merits which we have been accustomed to attribute to it; whether, indeed, it is not possible that it was an element of our national weakness, and a cause of our reverses...
...lonely enough in No. 43 during the first part of the following year. Few men visited me, and I would often sit for hours by the fire, thinking of former times and gazing at the ancient initials, guessing what sort of a fellow "J. C. W., 1792," was; whether he was a dig or a loafer, and whether he had a chum. I mean to go to the Library some day and learn all about J. C. W. and his college career. I have not time to tell of the long, late, lovely grinds I had here afterwards when...
...University Reporter runs a private dictionary. It has a long article headed "Yaine"; which name occurs throughout; probably the author was undecided whether to write up Yates or Taine, and so concluded to mix thing. In the same piece we have "Thackery," "jolley," "hypocrasy," and "Mesey," one of Dickens's characters, probably either Miggs, Meagles, or Miss La Creevy...