Word: surprisingness
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IT is surprising how little Freshman classes vary from one year to another. Always, taken as a whole, the same despised and timorous race, the additional step of classification shows that the same old percentages likewise recur, A' and B' stepping into the relative places of A and B with...
A GRADUATE of Harvard University of some legal celebrity, addressing a deliberative assembly not long since, whilst urging the necessity of a sort of missionary bishop for the diocese of Massachusetts, made the declaration that the young men at Cambridge needed rousing up to serious religious thought, or they would...
The state of his table's surprising; some play-bills,
It may be objected that the English language is no more peculiar in its sounds than any other; and certainly a man is inclined to find any language surprising and ridiculous which is not his own. This point is well illustrated by Montesquieu, who makes nis countrymen ask their visitor...
Having been invited to write something for a college paper, I complied with the request and sat down one day to gather a few scattered thoughts. With his usual inquisitiveness he asked me what I was doing. I answered "Writing." He wished to know "about what." I replied, "Loafers," and...