Word: whoever
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...drinking, he saw next him a lovely maiden eating alone, and, Venus prompting him, he thus addresses her: "O Virgin, by what name shall I call thee? O thou a goddess surely! Art thou a sister of Phoebus, or one of the race of nymphs? O, be propitious, and whoever thou art, - brace up on your supper and take a stroll on deck...
...might perhaps be remedied by requiring all members to indorse with their own names the tickets they give to their acquaintances. Heretofore the distinctive feature in all college sports has been the absence of the professional and rowdy element; let us hope, then, that in the future whoever is responsible will see to it that this time-honored principle will be adhered to and respected...
...furnish materials for an article to be written by you. Such an article would make it necessary for me to write another, provided any one attacked my method, and I should then be involved in a controversy in which my part would be an unbecoming one, and in which whoever wrote against me would have the irritating consciousness of not being able - or at any rate likely - to effect any change in my procedure by all his logic...
...would be weak and effeminate; but we do not grant that it is unmanly, unless unmanliness consists in using skill as well as strength. Because it is played by ladies, the uninitiated (and your correspondent is apparently among the number) suppose it to belong to the genus croquet. Whoever wishes to remove this impression has only to try a game on the next hot day, and see whether he does not get as much exercise as a strong, healthy man requires. Any form of outdoor exercise can be taken easily; rowing itself, if one rows slowly enough, is anything...
...faint and needed support. There was always a doubt in my mind whether he was Sir Philip Sidney or the Chevalier Bayard. I always supposed him to be the former of those gentlemen, on the historical occasion when he needed a glass of water to "brace him up"; but whoever he was, he tarried with us but a little while. It was said that he had been "caved in" by a strong wind, and needed strengthening, so we were led to believe that his absence was only temporary. It is now very nearly a year, however, since he left...