Word: extent
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Club is kept open during the whole year, - in term-time, till 12 at night; in vacations, every week-day, till 9. With the Oxford commons-system, it is not found advisable to have a club-kitchen of any great extent. Here, where there is actually no place where one can be sure of getting a good meal, a club-restaurant might be very successful; to attempt the experiment, however, a club would have to be very strong...
...same name, is one of the most pleasing of his works. It abounds in bright and humorous passages, and at the same time, there is a pathos, running through the two principal parts, of an exceedingly refined quality. To say that Mr. Sothern brings this out to its fullest extent, is simply to repeat that he is a finished actor and a gentleman. The support is not very good, the tendency being to overact the comic parts...
...life. Indeed, the authoress possesses a remarkable faculty of sketching upon the page the pleasant characteristics of New England life, and the stories are the more interesting for the degree to which they appeal to one's own experience. In point of literary workmanship, the tales vary to some extent. The second is one of really weird pathos, and so placed as to gain in power by contrast. No. 4 is very ingeniously contrived and very amusing. The last is "A Bit of Shore-Life," and is refreshingly "salt." It consists of a series of rapid descriptions of shore-life...
...therefore, already to a large extent non-sectarian by its statutes and foundation; by the encouragement given to students to examine both sides of important questions; by the largest liberty given them in their essays, discussions, and preaching; by there being no doctrinal tests for students or professors...
...without foundation. One year is not sufficient to give the system a fair trial. It is not to be wondered at if this new freedom, when first granted to a class of young men who for two years have been strictly bound to the recitation-room, should, to some extent, be abused; but the next class to enjoy the privilege have been warned by the experience of their predecessors of the danger of abusing it, the evil of which the Faculty complain will cure itself in due time, and then, the advantages, without the drawbacks usually attending privileges when...