Word: much
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Prof. - Stop: that sounds too much like a guidebook of Athens. Leave such matters to Mr. King...
...that is expected of him, the game would be far more injurious in its effects than the writer thinks it is now. As to its being "a rude and brutal" game, it certainly is a rough game, but practice at lawn tennis will not raise American physique, now so much decried, up to the English standard. But before criticising any further the expression "brutal," we must remember that Yale was one of the contestants in the game mentioned; and if that team played in its usual style, the expression is perhaps allowable...
...less than one hundred dollars. We cannot believe that even Harvard College is so poor that it cannot afford to devote this sum to keeping up the interest of one hundred and thirty men in an important study, especially when it is rich enough to waste many times as much in paying useless and inefficient janitors...
...when Noah's Ark and Balaam's Ass were the only plays that had a "run." The next lecture, to be given at the same hour and place Monday, will be in reality the beginning, and we doubt not that those who attend the course will be introduced to much curious and valuable English literature to which they are now strangers...
...write to you because you can't think how fond I am of you, and because I always read you, although Sophie Basdazure (do you know Sophie?) says your general tone is much inferior to that of the Aggravate. Now, you old duck, I 've a little plan, and I want to tell you all about it. I see poor little things wandering about with lots of books under their arms and a very dazed and unhappy expression of countenance. They tell me they are called sub-Freshmen, - things just like Freshmen, only younger and smaller, and trying very hard...