Word: markedness
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After the company had honestly disposed of an excellent bill of fare, ordered according to the best principles of gastronomy, and diluted by the fragrant vintages of Mr. Parker's cellars, the President of the evening, Mr. F. R. Appleton, succeeded in reducing it to a reasonable state of order...
MR. EDWIN ADAMS appeared at this theatre on Monday evening in the dramatic version of Tennyson's "Enoch Arden." The author followed the poem very closely in plot and detail, giving special prominence to the part of Enoch. Mr. Adams sustained this character in a quiet appreciative manner, which showed...
The present state of things is a marked change from what it was two years ago. Then, it is true, the gas burned in the entries till only half past ten; but a full blaze could be got at any part of the night in the basements. Now the brightest...
Early in the Freshman year those who profess a love of study and of scholarship are persecuted by a merciless prejudice; later this is changed, and the fine scholar, before he graduates, is honored with general respect. Various circumstances combine to cause this change, but all have their root in...