Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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WHEN a college paper reaches the state of total depravity which the following extract from the Undergraduate indicates that that paper has reached, it is time for the publication to cease...
...more paragraphs in its articles, one would be tempted to read them; but three columns in a single paragraph is more than one cares to undertake. When treating of the oratorical contest under the title of "A Literary Circus," it is certainly not witty, as the following extract will show: "The auburn-whiskered Higginson must have made an irreproachable ring-master. As for lugubrious clowns, representatives of the Darwinian theory and animals which sometimes prefer to "locomote" backward, who can doubt that they put in a large, if not an appreciated representation...
...thousand strokes a day at the hydraulic machines used by our crew necessarily brings out the pluck and endurance of the candidates for the boat. Pulling at an iron weight attached to a strap was a different thing, and might well have the effect our correspondent fears. An extract from an English paper on the construction of racing-boats, which accompanied the letter, but which was too long for insertion in our columns, we have banded to the captain of the University crew. If all our graduates took as active an interest in our boating affairs as this...
...Smith, in his History of Rome, classes among the most delightful productions of the human intellect. The name of the translator, known to us all through his Ancient Atlas, is a sufficient guaranty of the manner in which the translation has been made. We have room but for one extract. It applies particularly to those who find difficulty in going to prayers...
...this respect the Madisonensis is worse than the Student; half of the June 3d number is full of uninteresting and extraneous matter; as to the Round Table it got inspired the other day, and has relieved itself by a poem, an extract from which we insert...