Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...when the first batch of ladies came down, I mildly suggested that we should immediately begin the embarkation, - a long and serious task, I assured them. To which dear Mary would have yielded, but Mrs. Earl thought they would wait for the others; "and, I'm sure, Master Morris, you and I need all the heat we can get before our ride...
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...this season of the year, wellnigh as dark as they are at eleven; and yet the gas, especially on Saturday evenings, is often not turned on till seven or eight. The need of light is felt especially in the lower halls of Matthews and Holyoke, and a serious accident which occurred in the latter building one evening last week shows that our complaint is not an idle one. To have a front tooth knocked out by running against a projection in a dark hall is a mishap that we hope may soon be no longer possible...
...Reading-Room Association is to be congratulated. Already enough has been subscribed to pay the current expenses of the year, and there is every prospect of paying the liberally discounted gas-bill. It has become a serious question, however, whether again to attempt lighting the hall. The gas-bills were formerly $ 300 a year, and would probably be as much now. By using droplights for the tables, and side lights for the standing files, no doubt there would be a great saving; but it is understood that no alterations in the manner of lighting will be allowed on account...
...most serious obstacle in the graduate's path is the too common feeling that he has nothing more to learn. But this is a feeling by no means universal, and it is also one soon got rid of. If a college graduate enters a newspaper office with the idea in his head that he knows all about the business, he subjects himself to the same rebuffs as would meet him if he entered a dry-goods house with a like notion. But if he is willing to learn with patience the technicalities, and is willing to submit to those more...