Word: anger
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Victor Hugo was of plebian origin; hence the vigor of his physical constitution, the violence of his anger, his intellectual and moral health; hence also a certain lack of taste, of tact and of delicacy. During his youth he wandered abroad, in Italy and Spain, where he accumulated a stock of impressions. These impressions received in the course of his travels became fruitful in the dreams of his later years...
...each man thinks he will be the one chosen, they all agree, but, to their anger, Green deposits his ballot for himself. He at once asserts his authority, and declares his intention of taking the name of their dead leader...
...Faculty on the question of football. The graduate takes no pains to conceal his sneer at the "budding humility" and "seemly modesty" which the Harvard man is so unexpectedly developing. Evidently anything of the sort is foreign to his own nature, or he would not have let his momentary anger find such hasty expression. There is something very childish in his obvious inability to appreciate the feeling which led to Captain Brewer's manly letter...
...shall be as gods, knowing good from evil." The story of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden, was found in the Vendedad, though the chief attribute of the Parsee Areman was that of a mischief-maker. In both accounts, there is a marked anthropomorphism. God, in jealous anger at man's divine knowledge of good and evil drives him away from the garden. It was not strange that St. Paul, the first to bring the legend into prominence, should see in it the story of the fall of man, but it is possible that something of value...
...good material, and the number that will be chosen from them will add much to strengthen the club. The candidates were as follows: For the banjo - T. A. Jagger, Currier, Huntington. Tuckerman, Lane, Kimball, Flagg, Hubbell, Chamberlin, Emmett, Washburn, Parker, Stone, Sargent, Reed; for guitar, Stranahan, T. Hoppin, Bonersock, Anger...