Word: thought
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...well aware that anything which we can say on this subject will have very little influence with the authorities, it is a source of satisfaction to us that an article has appeared which will probably be read by them and will furnish them with some food for thought...
...refusing to contribute an account of it to the columns of a college paper. We certainly think it very likely that if he did so his system would be attacked, as he himself suggests, and this would of course put him in rather an awkward position. Whatever may be thought of Mr. Cook's method of procedure, - and we can say from his own account of it that it has its peculiarities, - he at least shows a commendable spirit of fairness in being so willing to explain it to all interested parties, especially to those who have been so unfortunate...
There was one branch of science for which I thought I had a special taste; I did my paper without a single mistake. Approaching the desk with a confident smile, I was informed, "Your paper was perfect, - not a single error; your mark is eighty-six per cent." "Why," said I, in a discouraged way," "I thought you said that I did a perfect paper." "So I did," said the scientist, in an angry voice; " I never give a higher mark than eighty-six." I wanted to ask him if 86 = 100 with the Faculty in reckoning up averages...
...such paper as the following, devised by the late Mr. Hodges: "Although this beneficence is unconditional, I hereby signify my intention, if I should be pecuniarily prosperous in life, to refund, in part or fully, to the above named scholarship, the benefaction awarded me." Such conditions, if it were thought best to insist upon them, would reduce to a minimum the disadvantages of a course of procedure of which the general results would be gratifying. Men of competent means would not be likely to incur the disgrace of failing to carry out an intention they deliberately recorded...
Editor who has charge of the dead and other foreign languages. Are you quite sure about pajama? I thought it meant under - Editor (friend of the oppressed Persian). Nonsense. Don't you suppose a native knows what he's talking about...