Word: remarkably
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hands upon the best tarts in every dish. He will lounge up to the table, join in a friendly conversation with somebody or other, and, in an absent sort of way, will slip into his plate tart after tart that I am vainly endeavoring to get at (I may remark, parenthetically, that I am physically small and weak), yet the man is so perfectly pleasant about it that in the present state of affairs I cannot publicly proclaim my disgust at his behavior...
...next thing worthy of remark is the grave statement, on the authority of a contributor whose name is not given, that a German literature, presenting a singularly "wide field for study," existed "at a time long before .... the fanciful poetry of the Minnesingers and noble epics." Some information in regard to the immortal works of German literature prior to the Nibelungenlied
...which enjoys so high a reputation for intellectual and philosophical eminence as does the Advocate will, in all probability, regard with silent contempt any suggestions made to it by so insignificant a person as a contributor to the Crimson. But I cannot refrain from closing my letter with the remark that a paper that desires to have any influence upon public opinion ought to endeavor to maintain some reputation for accuracy; and that if such a paper feels called upon to find fault with a body of men who are at least the social and intellectual equals of its editors...
...that those papers are the least inclined to be biassed that have connected with their editorial rooms college graduates. This point becomes more important when we remember that the number of college graduates who go into journalism - meaning newspaper work - is doubling every year, notwithstanding Horace Greeley's famous remark that he "would rather have a bull in a china shop...
...brought back from the eastern coast of America some most important relics, and among them some papers relating to this town of Harvard. It is expected that there will soon appear a work on America written in the light of these developments; at present it is sufficient to remark that the common notion that America was once a populous and powerful country, but that in the twentieth century there commenced a reduction of temperature and a southward movement of ice from the northern coast, which finally brought the land to its present barren state, is essentially correct. This article...