Word: surprisingness
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The lectures are delivered in a very clear style and are fully illustrated by numerous experiments. At present "Musical Pipes" is the subject. Considering the importance that the sciences are assuming at present, it is remarkable how few men take advantage of the opportunities presented here. There is no college...
OF all public holidays in the year none deserves fuller recognition than Memorial Day. Americans have too little national feeling; and the custom of decorating the graves of those who died for us in the terrible struggle two decades since is well worthy of perpetuation. In that conflict with an...
"Captain Scuffles could only consent. Mr. Carlin, with a surprising degree of agility considering his blindness, climbed down into the yacht, and I helped Bertha after; for the father's rudeness was surely no fault of the daughter. So, the skipper shoving the prow out and I loosing the hawsers...
THE Freshman crew won a noble victory. Taking the lead from the beginning, they kept it with ease to the finish, while the other crews were struggling to get away from the extreme rear. The causes of this surprising result are owing to the fact that the material of the...
THIS book has already met with an enthusiastic reception at Yale, which is not at all surprising, as the students there probably enjoy the local references, and recognize the eight students whose adventures form the foundation of the work. The incidents are by no means new, but to the reader...