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...will allow me to mention that the motive of most of the gentlemen who have contributed to this endowment was, I think, the support of theological teaching of a perfectly unsectarian character. That was precisely what interested them in this movement...
Sport I have heard this pastime called. Well, yes, it did furnish a good deal of sport to my host's pretty daughter. I now think that the taste for this amusement must be cultivated, and somebody else will have to cultivate mine considerably before I again allow it to make of me a walking clothes-line and unabridged dictionary of profanity combined. Simple Simon was a young Solomon when he chose his mother's pail for his fish-pond. The rest of my visit was more pleasantly devoted to the hammock, the pretty daughter, and the sketch...
...voted that each member should report at regular intervals the runs made by him, for the information of the other members of the club. This will doubtless prove a great convenience, as it will allow each rider to keep himself informed about the condition of the roads. The meeting broke up about eight o'clock, subject to the call of the officers...
...opposed to common sense, that I petitioned the Directors to be exempted from its provisions. At their meeting on Wednesday the Directors acknowledged the unfairness of the rule by rescinding it. Other petitions for deduction for the same reason as mine came before them, however. They voted to allow deductions covering the last recess, but none earlier; and, as a consequence, quite a number of claims - mine among them - were denied. It seems to me that this discrimination of the Directors between claims based on exactly the same grounds is more unfair, if possible, than the rule itself...
...instruction in the proposed University for women appeared in the Woman's Journal, and has been widely copied. The list, however, was made without any authority, and is quite incomplete. With hardly an exception, the Professors regard the new movement with favor, and all those whose other duties will allow them are willing to give instruction, and some even offered their services gratuitously...