Word: variousness
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...Putnam's Sons have begun to publish a series of volumes on "The Literary Life," edited by William Shepherd. The first volume is on "Authors and Authorship," and is made up of selections from various writers upon the profession of literature...
...think I must have been in rather a dim, religious mood, for my fancy, taking a strange turn, conjured up the apparitions of various men familiar to my college life and asked of them the questions which troubled...
...Very well; no matter. Perhaps I had better reserve that for another lecture. You know, at any rate, that in this century and in the preceding century we find a tendency exhibiting itself in various ways towards a centralization of fashion - I ought to say in passing that, if any of you are interested in Bibliography...
...folding doors was opened, and we all passed into an adjacent chamber and silently took seats there. At the upper end of the room was a large table with the University Senate seated about it, and near by were four smaller tables at which sat the Deans of the various faculties. After a few moments of impressive silence, one of the professors at the big table, who had all our papers in a neat pile before him, began to call slowly our names. As each man's name was called he marched up to the table and commenced a process...
...with me and be prepared to show at any time to prove that I was a student and thus out of the jurisdiction of the city; and No. 6 gave me my papers, consisting of the before-mentioned certificate, which in itself would cover a large-sized table, and various other documents: the statutes of the University, regulations for the use of the library and reading-room, &c. I then went off at a tangent to one of the smaller tables, where I answered the same old questions for the Dean of my faculty, and received a further addition...