Word: worded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...instruction in American constitutional history will begin with February in the historical political department of the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. H. B. Adams will have charge of the class. James Schouler, the historian, will deliver a course of lectures. No text-book, in the commonly accepted sense of the word, will be used, but the five volumes of Mr. Schouler's history of the United States will form the basis of the class and individual work. Dr. Woodrow Wilson, professor of administration at Princeton, will give a series of 24 lectures to the class upon "Administration and Comparative Politics...
...scriptorium, as they call the building where his great Dictionary of the English Language is being compiled. The building is made of corrugated iron. The inside walls are covered as high as you can reach with shelves. on which stand the millions of slips relating to different usages of words in all phases of English literature. On other shelves are all the leading dictionaries of the language, open at the particular word under consideration, so that comparison may be made without any needless delay...
...CREW.- Word will be left at Leavitt and Peirce's at 2 o'clock when to row. Every man to go there and find...
...Moulton began with the definition of the word humour and its derivation. It was derived from the Latin root meaning moistur and during the Middle Ages came to be applied in the plural to the moistures or juices which on old medical authority made up the constitution of a human being, as bile or phlegm. So a bilious or phlegmatic humour came to mean a certain character or state. This was the sense in which Jonson used "humour," in the play "Every Man out of his Humour...
...notice that the freshmen crew is to begin to train today, and as the number of the men has been reduced so that idea can be obtained of the final crew, we cannot forbear a word to these who are left on the subject of training. It is a fact that freshmen are likely to get over-framed about a week before the last face, and this is due almost entirely to the nervous strain rather than to too much work. It is neccessary for men trying for a crew to avoid this nervousness and to keep themselves...