Word: casually
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...gave at the beginning of each academic year; and many knew, long after they left the University, that he was still their friend. For Professor' Wright had, in a measure rarely granted even to lovable men, the power of awakening affection. No one who met him in the mere casual relations of life could fail to be impressed with his sincerity; while to those who were privileged to know him intimately he endeared himself in countless ways. Of the affectionate regard in which his friends held him I do not trust myself to write. He loved his fellow...
...genially frank in respect to its literary shortcomings is the current number of the Advocate that criticism is disarmed. The few stories and verses do not pretend to be more than they are, --casual productions of a wholesome undergraduate life. And this is a relief. Self-consciousness, and straining for effect, are far too prominently characteristic of undergraduate compositions...
Freshman dinners vary but little from time to time and it is only the exceptional class that makes the most of its first dinner. There is a splendid chance here for something more than the casual speeches by a few chosen men of the class and it is to be hoped that the speakers tonight will be inspired to present something more vital to the interests of the class than a few worn-out stories. Moreover, the disgraceful disorder of the dinners of not so very many years ago is no longer considered essential to these functions; rather, a cheapening...
...casual traveler in France the Republic seems to have been extraordinarily efficient in securing the prosperity of the nation. Poverty, which is all too ubiquitous in this country, does not force itself upon one in France, and the amount of idleness, as well as of all forms of human misfortune, is incredibly small...
...attempts to photograph the expected shower of leonids this year in consequence of the unusual rarity of meteors which have been sighted. On Friday night a watch was kept for the shower but only a few desultory meteors fell before a fog arose and precluded further observations. A casual watch was again kept on Saturday night, but not a single meteor was observed. As the extraordinary showers which were predicted to occur about the year 1899 have not materialized, it is probable that the Observatory will make no further attempt to obtain photographs of leonids for some years...