Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...equilateral triangle, and multiplied half its altitude by twenty; that gave forty-eight, my mark. I asked him to explain the principle on which he did it; but he replied that he had been a long time inventing the process, and knew it was the only fair one. I thought that "his drift was shady," and left...
...fifty-dollar overcoats; how he did it is a mystery, as he must have passed in full view of the attendant at the desk and all the persons in that part of the Library. He had evidently heard that the check system was to be introduced on Monday, and thought that he would make hay while the sun shone. We believe that two other overcoats have also been lost from the Library this year, besides innumerable hats and umbrellas. It would have been somewhat better, perhaps, to have locked the barn door before the horse was stolen, rather than after...
...ambitious Senior, wishing to be thought a Man of Wit as well as a Man of Letters, took English 5 as the best means of attaining his purpose...
...recitation-room, and, where any common man would merely have barked his shin, McClure broke his right arm and two fingers of his left hand. Recitations were postponed. Hardly had McClure recovered, when he was seized with an attack of typhoid fever, and recitations were again postponed. The Faculty thought that things were looking pretty serious; but hoped that the fever would end the list of catastrophies...
...generous spirit that did him credit, said he had reflected calmly upon the matter and could not discover that the class was to blame. So they let him return once more, and what was left of the Freshman class immediately broke its other leg. The Faculty were furious. They thought it would have been a happy conceit on the part of the class if it had started with its neck, and had broken that first instead of stringing itself out in this provoking manner. And again the generous-spirited man spoke up, and said that they ought not to upbraid...