Word: much
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that many laboring men and women exceed two hundred thousand hours of hard work in a life-time while the average time of life spent by our most laborious literary men has not exceeded thirty thousand hours or about one sixth that of the laboring man with only as much brain as may guide his movements. Inasmuch, therefore, as intellectual labor his been found more wearying than that required of the ordinary man, the conclusion has been drawn that not more than nine months of the year should be devoted to school work, and it seems to be the tendency...
DEAR SIR-I enclose with this a clipping from the New York Herald of the 16th inst. and will be much obliged to you if you will deny or confirm the statement therein made that an influential member of the Harvard nine endeavored to get you to leave Pennsylvania and enter Harvard...
...stock of London street and driving gloves in the men' furnishing department is good now-much better than it will be after a few weeks. The Society has a good line of knit Scotch wool gloves in various patterns...
...whole story gives rise to suspicion of that craft in intercollegiate matters in which I admit Harvard is far behind some of her contemporaries, and savors too much of the worse features of American polities...
...Glee club. Those to whom the treat was rarest were Harvard graduates who found it both pleasant and profitable to renew their associations with their Alma Mater, if but for a single evening. They are thereby entitled to recognition, if the Glee club are not; and it is as much on their account as on the account of the Glee club itself that we believe the action of the faculty a mistake. It seems a little like an untimely exercise of preparatory school discipline. The permission granted to give a concert in New York goes very little towards establishing...