Word: surprisingness
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"The examination of Freshmen has now been completed for the third year. The results of this examination shows a surprising similarity each year. The same percentage of boys are found with damaged hearts, with albumen in the urine, etc., each year.
The surprising degree of accuracy in past Catalogues has saved endless confusion wherever facts about Harvard men are dealt with. The painstaking work of Miss Mullen, who for fifteen years has read the proof of the catalogue, deserves highest commendation.
Perhaps the most striking thing about the December Monthly is that every bit of it is well written. There is not one bad thing in the number, and the good things show a really surprising command of language. Yet there is nothing very notable in the collection, one receives the...
A surprising trend away from the professions and toward industrial and commercial pursuits is shown in the new Yale directory of living graduates. The recent compilation shows a gain of 99 per cent, in the number of graduates engaged in industrial and commercial pursuits in the 12 years ending with...
"As long as the line was solid he backfield had time to get the elusive plays in operation. The trouble with Harvard this season was that the line was not strong enough to protect the backfield till it got under way; in consequence the opposing players got through and stripped...