Word: worded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...believe that this game conclusively proves that Harvard can win the final game if the present steady play be kept up. Therefore, in the midst of the rejoicing, we add this word of caution, that '87 can win, but that if they do win, they must work for it honestly and faithfully...
...seems to have been entertained in the same manner on Monday. In the latter game they are said to have apologized for their mode of welcome, after they had gained the game by that same welcome. Truly, this is a good specimen of Yale politeness. There is but one word that characterizes such a proceeding fitly, and that is-"muckerish." It plainly shows that Yale has become so used to victory that she cannot accept defeat in a straightforward and gentlemanly spirit, but must have recourse to the methods of roughs and bullies to obtain that which she cannot...
...Italian, but has recently moved to Leipsig where he has been matriculated at the University of Leipsig. Here he has been pursuing his studies under Zarncker, Techner, Hildebrand and wulcker. Of the first he says: "Zarncker is even more interesting than I had expected. His lectures are clear, well worded, and to the point; his delivery is excellent and he has the art of imparting his enthusiasm to his audience." Of Techner he says: "Techner, too, has a first rate style of lecturing. He is a young man of about 30 years. He speaks without notes, and so clearly that...
President Eliot has a good word to say for the study of history in his recent article in the June Century, discussing the proper elements for a college education. "If any study is liberal and literalizing," he writes, "it is the modern study of history. Philology and polite literature arrogate the title of the humanities;' but what study can so justly claim that honorable title as the study which deals with the actual experience on this earth of social and progressive...
...whilst" as firmly as they do in their spelling of "favour," labour," "honour" and "cheque." Whatever modifications in English orthography have been the result of a desire to expunge useless letters. The Englishman replies that in these cases we destroy all trace of the origin of the word. But "favor," "labor" and "honor" are pure Latin, and the insertion of the letter "u" is a bit of spurious orthography, while "check" certainly comes near the French source (echec) than when spelt "cheque...