Word: third
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...third is somewhat worse...
GENTLEMEN,- It is with pain that I am obliged to refuse your invitation. I am anxious to avoid the appearance of making a bid for a third term, and therefore I have not appeared in public for the past two years...
...With the third book the Dunciad properly ends. But Pope was induced to add a fourth, which, like every Annex, contributes no beauty itself, and impairs the strength and effect of the rest." (This brings down the house...
...days or weeks in term-time, when regular lectures, recitations, and laboratory work are intermitted, as time to be used for reading, writing, and converse with comrades in intellectual pursuits. The summer vacation is, in itself, a quarter of the year; to take vacation in addition during one-third of each of the other weeks in the year means to use but half of the year for work...
...Third, Personal items, mentioning circumstances which cannot possibly be of interest to any one except the person "itemized," have hitherto been an unknown feature of our college papers. These will be introduced as a special department of the Harvard Reverberation, but not too plentifully at first, lest they should shock minds accustomed to consider such things not in good taste...