Word: whoever
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...about to publish Mezzofanti's method of learning a foreign tongue. He has tried his method repeatedly, and his pupils have mastered different languages, each in from three to four weeks. 'Every man of average capability can learn any foreign language within a month,' says the Professor, 'and whoever fails is a lazy or a stupid fellow." - Newark Advertiser...
...Whoever takes notes with care, even copying them after each day's lecture, is surely well repaid by what he has as a result of his labor at the end of the year. To own books is rightly deemed a great advantage. It is more true of making books. If to own is to profit. A carefully written, and thoroughly indexed note-book is invaluable. The student who knows how to take notes, and is ready to apply what he knows, can make for himself the most valuable part of his library...
...regret that the Index for this year has not yet made its appearance. "Someone has blundered," and this year it is the printer, we understand. But whoever it is, the misfortune is none the less a misfortune. Such a book as the Index intends to be, should be in the hands of the students as early in the season is possible, and we do not believe but that it is possible to publish it much easier than is the case at present. Never, we believe, has the book been as late as it has this year. It is quite probable...
...team seemed not only to know where he himself should be at a given time, but also where every other man in the team was and should be. And this seems to me, to be directly due to the fact that he had been told by the Captain, or whoever acted as coach, what to do in any given case. This idea was thoroughly confirmed in my mind, on the evening following, when I was told that such was truly the state of the case. To quote in the words of my informer, "Each rusher was told to back...
...students were forbidden to march as representatives of the college. Accordingly, with that peculiar deference for Faculty decrees which has always prevailed at Harvard, they proceeded to carry out the order in spirit as well as in letter. "Whoever says we are Harvard Seniors is a Liar and a Villian," said the transparency borne by the class of '73; and equally convincing methods were employed by the others to remove all impression from the bystanders that college men had any connection with the parade. The value of obedience is shown by the result, for henceforth the Faculty ceased to interfere...