Word: whose
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this state of things. I am only going to use this statement as an introduction to a warning lecture, which I sincerely hope that you will read. For a man's life cannot help being more or less evident in his appearance and his conversation; and a person whose existence is as deliberately monotonous as that of most of our compatriots will almost infallibly wear the same coat from morning till night, and talk nothing but shop. I have lately been reminded of this fact, in a rather disagreeable way, by meeting a certain number of college...
...good they did us. But now that things have come to such a pass that we find ourselves confronted every four weeks or so with three, four, five, or more examinations crowded into one week, it would seem that the pretty cub has already developed into a monster whose insatiable appetite threatens us all with destruction. With prophetic foresight I contemplate in horror the consequences of its continuance among us; I see a time, not far off, when the boldest student will have fled; when these fair halls will be the home of desolation, and the recitation-rooms of University...
...creditable to their training. Others, of a temperament more like my own, betrayed their confusion by blushing, stammering, talking like idiots, and playing alternately with their gloves and their watch-chains. All this was very entertaining, but at the same time it was so difficult to discover a man whose behavior was not either offensive or intolerably stupid that I confess that I was very much disgusted...
...which I spoke are, or used to be, closed to you. At the same time you can expect to know a reasonable number of ladies, and if you take advantage of the introductions which I took the trouble to procure for you, you can expect to know ladies whose acquaintance will be not only agreeable, but also useful to you, as you grow to be an older and a greater man. The refining influence of female society is a subject that has been so thoroughly exhausted of late years that I will not bore you by entering upon...
...this institution of learning demand that they should have a week of rest somewhere between the first of January and the first of July. This belief is no hasty judgment. It is founded on the observations of several years; and the Faculty have the satisfaction of knowing that others, whose opportunities for forming an opinion have been equal, at least, to their own, came to the same conclusion about five years ago. The petition sent to the Corporation says that the interests of the students demand the recess; we may say that the well-being of the instructors demands...