Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...every ape in the community - thank Heaven, their number is very small - should immediately cry out, 'That's my picture' and he also sees less reason why they should thereupon abuse, cuff, and punish him accordingly." We hope that the exchange editor of the Advocate will not think it necessary to cowhide the editress of the Beacon...
...seat in the boats, and to secure this it would seem to be fairer to draw the lots from a hat, rather than have the captains choose from the list in turn. Possibly the "lot" system may have been followed generally, but in one or two cases we think...
...track on Jarvis, and we can promise completion in from a week to ten days. The surface will be spaded up to a depth of one foot; eighteen inches will be removed from the inside all the way round, and the track carefully graded and rolled. We think that the track can be made from four to six seconds faster in the mile, and that this work will effect it. We omitted to say that the track will be carefully cindered to a depth of an inch, which will greatly add to its speed. An effort will be made...
...rule in regard to throwing the hammer does not seem to us quite as it should be: "Letting go of the hammer in an attempt counts as a 'try'." When the "solid iron sphere, weighing sixteen pounds," strikes a spectator in the head, we think it extremely likely that that individual, if able to collect his ideas, would look upon it as a 'throw'. After several spectators in the immediate neighborhood had been carried off prostrated by these 'tries,' the judges might with reason decide that the contestant had done enough for that afternoon, as the spectators seemed not hurt...
...utmost importance that he should know it, in order that he may bring up his average by closer application. If, on the other hand, he has done well, it is equally important that he should be encouraged in his endeavors. Men look at marks in different lights. One may think that he has done well in getting seventy per cent, while another, working for honors perhaps, would think the same mark too low. Whatever may be the pleas for and against marks, as long as we have them at all, it is but just that the student should know...