Word: useful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...confess it had occurred to us that there was only one man who could properly edit a "Harvard" Shakspere, and that man was our own Professor Child; it had also occurred to us that there were other books than those prepared by Mr. Hudson on our shelves and in use in our Shakspere classes, - namely, the series edited with so much skill and accuracy by Mr. William J. Rolfe, of Cambridge, and also the excellent Clarenden Press manuals of Mr. W. Aldis Wright. And in the critical line we had always supposed that Dowden, Ulrici, and Werder over-topped...
...contrary," said the philosopher, "I have found here the only woman I have ever seen who can make use of her approximation to brain...
WITH some of the arguments advanced by the writer in the last Crimson we fully agree. That he is justified in claiming that the men who play this game should have some ground devoted to their use, no one will deny; provided that in asserting their own rights they do not forget that to others courtesy at least...
...firm foothold in College, but has failed, and has in fact been eclipsed by cricket, though the latter is the newer sport. Had Lacrosse been able to obtain a high position in the estimation of our students, by common consent it would have had a field allotted to its use, and would have received pecuniary support, which is the willing and necessary accompaniment of a popular sport. The opponent of tennis further states that to those who do not play the game it seems to be the most utterly imbecile and childish of all out-door sports. This does...
LITTLE Henry was crying. Not because he was cold or hungry, or because he had lost his top, or because his grandmamma had found it necessary to use her slipper for another purpose than protecting her aged foot. He was crying because the time to part with all the dear ones at home had come. That morning his grandmamma had taken him apart and had said, "You're getting a big boy now, Henry, and it is necessary that you go out into the world to seek your fortune. You cannot expect to live in this forest all your days...