Word: exhibition
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...college paper that does such things (it is not necessary to be more explicit) prepared a table of statistics of the circulation of a number of college papers, the object being to exhibit its own superiority in this respect. We have no hesitation in saying that, so far as this paper is concerned, the statement was entirely false, and inquiries have developed the fact that the statistics of other papers are equally erroneous. We say this merely to relieve our exchanges from the necessity of further copying a worthless item...
...stream, or to the proximity of a battle field where, they are wont to assert, a battle was once fought, is still a matter of some doubt. A thoroughly impartial examiner might say that indications were slightly in favor of the latter hypothesis, judging from the undue pride they exhibit over certain perforations in the side of a house, said to have been made by bullets in the above-mentioned battle...
After all, my desire to see Harvard defeat Yale is secondary to my wish to see her exhibit scientific rowing for its own sake; and, if the annual struggle continues, I should prefer to see the flags awarded to the best oarsmanship, if it were practicable to come to a decision on such a basis. As it is, I am disposed to encourage races only so far as they encourage again a general use of the oar among the students as a means of improving the health...
When Dr. Dwight visited this region, Cambridge had a population of only about two thousand. "The houses," he says, "exhibit every gradation of building found in this country, except the log hut. Several handsome villas and other houses are seen here, a considerable number of decent ones, and a number, not small, of such as are ordinary and ill-repaired." In regard to these last the good Doctor had a theory of his own. He thought they must be "inhabited by men accustomed to rely on the University for subsistence; men whose wives are the chief support of their families...
EARNEST aspirants to exhibit their knowledge of the teachings of Messrs. Locke, Spinoza, Descartes, etc., were grievously disappointed yesterday morning, upon assembling at Memorial Hall, and finding no intellectual feast, in the way of an examination paper, prepared for them. We understand that the cause of the delay in the examination was that the instructor, who should have been on hand at nine o'clock, wearied himself exceedingly in pointing out, the evening before, the utter want of practicability in the instructor who, a few weeks ago, forgot the hour at which his examination began. So wearied grew our philosopher...