Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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EMULOUS of Coleridge, Mr. K - s has written an apostrophe to a young ass. Mr. K. believes that the true success in writing poetry lies in the secret of identifying yourself with your subject...
...said that many of our wise and enlightened legislators, in Congress assembled, cherish in secret a belief that the government of the United States has only to print on a piece of paper the magic sentence, "This is a dollar," to make that hitherto useless paper as valuable a measure of value and medium of exchange as the standard dollar of coin. It is in something of the same spirit that successive classes in Harvard College have voted "that the office of chaplain shall be considered as of more importance than before," and by this vote men of character...
Order of the day now pending: "Resolved, that members of secret societies should not be allowed to act as jurors, or serve as witnesses in courts of law." Offered by Mr. Sprigg, of Illinois...
...Faculty Decision."Resolved, That no member of the present Freshman class, nor of future Freshman classes, shall become a member of the present Sophomore secret societies; nor shall any secret society hereafter be formed or exist in the Sophomore class...
...convention then went into secret session, which, I suppose, should not be published, further than that Harvard attempted, unsuccessfully, to obtain the adoption of coxswains. Our delegates also failed in getting Mr. Alexander Agassiz chosen Umpire. They thought that the selection of a graduate of a college and a gentleman in as high a position as Mr. Agassiz is would give a higher tone to the race; nevertheless they do not by any means doubt the ability of Mr. Watson, of Wilkes' Spirit of the Times, who was elected...