Word: comments
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Comment is quite unnecessary...
...performance is gone through with. If he meets a small boy in the street, the small boy gracefully touches his cap. The people who have been most intimately connected with this reform movement have naturally felt some delicacy in having it noised abroad and made the subject of general comment until the success of their experiment was fully assured. Judging, however, from the results above given, I think that they have every reason to be sanguine for the future...
...absence of college men from public life, always a cause of more or less comment and wonder, has recently, by a high authority, been particularly mentioned and regretted in reference to Harvard. All of us, I think, regret it, and many of us are ambitious to some day increase the number of Harvard's delegation to Washington; but we all feel that there is too little provision here made to fit us for such honorably useful positions as those at which, it is to be supposed, this ambition aims. In pursuance of that well-considered scheme of study which...
SOME one has been trying to write Latin verse at Dartmouth, and our friend the Advocate has quoted some of it; but without comment. For about a week the Dartmouth has probably been half tickled with the republication, half annoyed that there was no pointing out of special beauties. We strongly suspect that in a few days the Darimouth will be thankful the Advocate did not comment, and rather wish it had n't published...
...recent dinner held in New York in honor of Adam Smith's Work, "The Wealth of Nations," has excited considerable comment, and has aroused an interest in the subject which we hope will bear its fruits. The matter comes home to us in view of the recent withdrawal of Political Economy from the list of required studies...