Word: rightnesses
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...ninety-five electives are offered in eleven different departments, and it is clear that the elective system is an assured success, and that a right selection of electives can make an undergraduate what Harvard undertakes to make...
...from every square inch of his person. He "strolls" into a shop with you; asks the price of something; says, when answered, "Sixteen dollars? ah! three pounds four shillings. Yes, old man, yes, that's cheap." He corrects you frequently as to "good form," assuring you that he is right beyond question, for your expression is unknown outside "the States...
...Right in the way of everything...
There needs little to be said to show the injustice of this practice, and we wish it were diminishing rather than increasing. The fact of living in a desirable room for three or four years ought to satisfy in itself, for it certainly does not confer the right of considering the room an heirloom to be handed down in perpetuity. But even worse than making over rooms to one's friends is the bartering for and selling of such rooms, often at a scarcity value. In condemnation of this we think nothing too severe can be said. It is difficult...
...Bones," said the Pope, "my bones are all right; but - where's my infallibility...