Word: commandments
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...push their studies in whatever direction they choose; but to the latter there is presented no such chance. They have taken already the electives in their special subject, and now there are no courses open to them in which they can work with profit. To be sure, they have command of the Library, an invaluable aid to any student, and they have the advice of the teachers; but they are not yet able to work profitably without guidance, and the time of the teachers is too fully taken up to allow them to give much of it to graduates...
...that Mr. Winsor has taken command at the Library, it is to be hoped that the change will not stop at the head, but will extend to the whole department...
...Pray don't," I laughed, "pray don't! I'll swear eternal fealty to the molecular theory if you command...
...before, and has to be heard from the lips of a genuine up-country Yankee to be understood. Duty, tune, lucid, blue, etc., become dooty, toon, bloo, etc. Past, fast, last, etc., invariably parst, farst, larst, only the r is not distinct. Whether he is right in saying demand, command, castle, example, I won't undertake to decide; he certainly has much authority on his side. Perhaps, however, the safest way to shun the extremities represented by the Western haff and laff and the Yankee's parst and larst is to follow the medio tutissimus ibis rule of Ovid...
...manners and morals of her children; and the natural consequence is that some of these children fall into the very objectionable practice of eating with their knives, while others, of a more vicious if more elegant temperament, indulge in various excesses of behavior and language which cannot command the approval of sober-minded men. At the same time, there is a good side to all this. Every man must sooner or later learn to take care of himself; and nowadays most men come to college at an age when this lesson is by no means premature. At first the wickedness...