Word: explain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...WHITE met candidates for Second-Year Honors in classics this afternoon at three o'clock in U. 16, to explain the conditions on which honors are granted, and to answer any questions...
...regard the placing of two or three names in spaces by themselves as an "exalting of the few at the expense of the many," but later on their minds were relieved. Happy thought! Perhaps the man who had mind enough to originate that card may be able to explain the "curve system" of marking used in German VII. and the lowness of the marks in English...
...here is the Courant talking of "this style of verse," as if it were something quite out of the common run, while the metre of the "Portrait" is most simple and familiar. We must, then, have mistaken the intention of the Lit.'s poet. Will the Courant kindly explain what the unusual metre is? The idea, however, of "A Counterfeit Presentment" is very pretty, and very well worked out. It may also be mentioned in this connection that the lines containing the rhyme to which the Advocate objected so strenuously in its last number, are quoted from Mrs. Browning...
...reading-room. The Record severely remarks, that "the criminals should be dealt with to the full extent of the law"; but its severity is tempered with the milk of human kindness, as we see by the remark that, "should the suspected party choose to make full restitution and explain his conduct to the officers of the reading-room, he will avoid further exposure, and the chastisement incident upon it." What a comfort it must be to suspect somebody...
...Then how is it that you 've got your hat now? " There was a suspicious twinkle in his eye as he answered." All in good time, my dear fellow. I'll explain that to your satisfaction by and by - If we go on this way we shall get to hair-splitting, which is unprofitable, you know. Don't ask irrelevant and awkward questions, but let me go on with my story. Where was I ? O yes. Well, I pulled out a handkerchief, and with both hands dusted the sparklets from my face and shoulders. At last, thank Heaven, they shut...