Word: yes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...because they were unwilling that this should be done, but because they knew from experience that it could not be done, exactly, authoritatively and officially. It would be impossible to give such a statement of the reasons that induced a large and hetrogeneous body of men to vote yes or no on a certain motion. The chairman of the committee would not be able to give a statement of reasons that would be satisfactory to even a large minority of the faculty who voted on the resolution, so the faculty arranged that the five faculty members of the conference committee...
...short, thick-set and resolute looking, has dropped dead in the street, and the gendarmes have brought the nameless body here. He wears a blue blouse, and his cap is still upon his head; his sleeves, rolled up, disclose two arms of unusual muscularity. This man died hard. Yes, and yet his death was infinitely easier than his life had been; for the soles of his shoes are worn quite through, and the bottoms of the feet, turned toward the window, are raw and bloody and caked with the dust of a long and fearful tramp. What was his name...
...written long ago? Indeed, the man of clear vision, who can estimate the forces at work in him and around him, is encouraged and emboldened when he feels that he knows what he is to accomplish. To him an opportunity is more than an exhortation, it is a prophecy. Yes, it may be said, very good, so long as the future he can forsee is pleasant, and the action he can forecast is noble; but if he thinks he is fated to be miserable, will that not extinguish his hopes, will that not break his spirit? Certainly, I might answer...
Second under-graduate : "Oh, yes! first-rate."-(Punch...
...seven years a human body became entirely changed, so that not a particle which was in it at the commencement of the period would remain at the close of it. "Then, Miss Lisle," said the young tutor, "in seven years you will cease to be Miss Lisle?" "Why, yes, sir; I hope so," said she very modestly, looking at the floor.-[Dartmouth...