Word: remarkably
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...articles in the Cornell Review for October are chiefly written by alumni, so that we cannot judge it by the same standard as other college papers. There is nothing of which to complain in the perfectly impartial account of the Freshman race, excepting perhaps the remark that "as usual, Cornell had won"; and that is too harmless a piece of self-deception to call out any reply...
...review of Professor Hill's Rhetoric the Literary World has the following remark (the italics are our own): "Mr. Hill illustrates his treatise by copious citations from the works of others, - in a large part, rumor says, the theses and other exercises in composition of Harvard students; but not wholly so, for he is obviously a watchful reader of all best literature, and has read pencil in hand." Besides the compliment to our literary productions, what a vivid picture those last lines bring before...
...this work were written at different periods of the composer's life, and yet the unity of thought and treatment is well preserved throughout. There are some commonplaces in it, however, and it might have been condensed a little by the composer to its advantage. We heard some one remark that the several movements were played in too rapid succession, but Mr. Thomas was evidently aware that the composer expressly desired that this should...
...sympathize with the Record! It seems that at Yale too there are those simple and primitive beings who innocently appropriate the magazines in the reading-room. The Record severely remarks, that "the criminals should be dealt with to the full extent of the law"; but its severity is tempered with the milk of human kindness, as we see by the remark that, "should the suspected party choose to make full restitution and explain his conduct to the officers of the reading-room, he will avoid further exposure, and the chastisement incident upon it." What a comfort it must...
...some editorials to write to-night for our paper, and I can't do both. Now, had you just as lief write the editorials for me? I only want a few; something about the last concert at Sanders Theatre, about the changes at the Library, and a remark or two on the semi-annuals. I'd do it myself, but I have n't time...