Word: worded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seems almost trivial to return to a subject which is so well-worn as that of the use of books in the library: but when the annoyance increases to such a degree that it becomes almost maddening, some word of protest certainly is not out of place. If every man will but remember that his interest in a reserved book is not a life interest, and that others desire to use it as well as he, the whole matter will be simplified and the trouble abated. It is this thoughtlessness, and only thoughtlessness, without question, which causes all the trouble...
...Latin lexicon, containing the history of every word in the language beginning with the earliest records and including the ecclesiastical writings of the Middle Ages is being prepared by several noted scholars headed by Herr Wofflin of Munich. It is expected that this tremendous work cannot be completed in less that twenty years...
...must lose some point in the lapse of centuries when the attacked person has been well-nigh forgotten, while the sufferings of the Thebauprima are always affecting. Again, the "Acharnians" did not give the spectators that sense of being transported into another world which the "Oedipus" gave. In a word, the illusion was lacking. Perhaps this was in some measure due to the place where the play was produced, in a theatre, in a great city, apart from the scenes of academic life. But enough has been said on this point, rather does so earnest and successful an attempt...
...number of freshmen returning to Cambridge after the Exeter game of Wednesday last, created considerable disturbance in one of the Cambridge horse-cars. Some members of the class of ninety it seems, have yet to learn that manhood does not consist in "talking big" and making a noise. "A word to the wise...
...have heard the last of the accusation, "lack of sand," which has been so thoughtlessly hurled at the members of the ninety foot-ball team. There is now no more need of complaint. Let the New Haven men beware, for "We're going to beat Yale." Now a word to the News. We recognize the peculiar ability which the New Haven journal has always displayed in carping at what claims to be "Harvard," and therefore we are little surprised that when a lack of copy stares the editor in the face he should criticise Harvard. If the CRIMSON has displayed...