Word: rather
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...those who are unable to go to their homes, the CRIMSON extends the merriest of holiday greetings. Comfortably resting far from nine o'clock recitations, the College Office, these, and all the other vexations of our Cambridge existence, one may wonder whether such things really exist; are they not rather a dream, a bad dream, full of a succession of never-ceasing worries invented to dog our weary footsteps? Almost convinced, we put the thought of them far back in the darkest and dustiest corner of our minds...
...than the student body. The fact that the students do not attend in larger numbers naturally suggested that it was because the hour was inconvenient. The change is, of course, not intended to drive away the people of Cambridge who have been accustomed to attend on Sunday evenings; but rather to meet the convenience of the students for whom all these services are maintained...
...fitted for this work for four reasons; he is more sensitive to pain than to happiness, he is highly susceptible to disease, his requirements for maintenance of life are too great to obtain the highest degree of efficiency and he produces in order that he may produce more, rather than that he may produce more, rather than that he may enjoy what he has already produced. Man's egotism is opposed by his will and turned into altruism, and his intelligence, which distinguishes him from other members of the animal kingdom and raises him to the realm of a divine...
...Orfeo," shows genuine literary conscience in sticking to the spirit of the original and in avoiding plenty of chances to decorate the phrasing. "A Shell Found Inland" proved a truly poetic find for J. G. Gilkey, who would have done better, nevertheless, to tell of it in two stanzas rather than in three. The rest of the verse and all of the fiction, save for passages here and there, have already been noticed at the beginning of this review...
...have designed are so simple, so intelligently planned, so excellent in their lighting, so admirable in their equipment that they are little short of perfect in their entirety. But you speak of it as the Dental School. In a certain sense it is not a School at all, or rather not mainly a School; it is a hospital. The work of teaching dentistry except for the clinic instruction, is done mainly in the building of the Medical School at its side. The work done in the Medical School is mainly the treatment of patients in the hospital, and this...