Word: worked
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...Miracles," - a most stupendous work...
...distances are so short that no one would have a right to complain. Besides, it would be peculiarly easy to introduce this change here, for most of the men who are reading with a view to writing, and so might want a book for a considerable time, do their work in the library and not in their rooms...
...songs and glees of this Club. The Pierian Sodality is not even as well known as the Glee Club. It is true that both the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality give annual concerts in Cambridge; but that they should accomplish no more than this for the year's work does not speak well for their management. We should propose that permission be obtained to put up in the Yard, much earlier than usual, the band stand which is used every Class Day, and that concerts be given weekly by both Glee Club and Pierian. The most desirable time for these...
...half an hour, they were unable to reach the cerebrum. So thick was the cranium that the operators began to despair of finding any brain at all, and were about to relinquish their attempts, when a young medical student suggested that a charge of dynamite would perhaps do the work. By this means the cocoa-nut was successfully cracked, and a small cavity, no larger than a tennis-ball, was laid open. The matter therein examined was viscous, sprinkled with a fine metallic dust resembling brass. One of the surgeons, a clever psychologist, thought that undue conceit had caused...
...that sufficient notice has not been given of them this year. Beyond what satisfaction there is in knowing exactly when one is to be tortured, we cannot, however, see how this early announcement will make preparation materially easier. It is useless to attempt to take time needed for term work or for recreation in order to prepare for examinations to come in two months, or even in one month. Under our system, work for examinations can hardly be begun more than two weeks beforehand; - seldom then, without neglecting something else, perhaps of more real importance. It was found necessary last...