Word: behind
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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SCENE, History Recitation.Instructor (reading). At this point the king of England came up behind with his foot, and - (Turning leaf...
...that quarter are shown to be at their worst, they think proper to give up the ship entirely, and deny to the present Sophomore and Freshman classes even the meagre instruction before doled out. In this one respect our College is and has for a long time been behind other smaller institutions. These have good instruction by eminent elocutionists furnished them, while we are forced to get it at private expense, though the College ought to furnish it. For this reason we are glad to see the advertisement of a gentleman fully competent to give good instruction in Elocution...
...meant by "energy" or "enterprise," that noisy spirit of "go-ahead-a-tiveness" which calls so loudly for the abolition of everything old under the head of "fogyism," and for the encouragement of everything new, under the head of "progression," - a progression which consists rather in tearing down everything behind you, than in building up anything in front, - nor is much to be gained from that spirit of easily kindled enthusiasm which chiefly shows itself in the rejection of the positive for the comparative, of the comparative for the superlative...
...matted hair, the bloodshot eye, the rapacious claw of Slippery Mike. Remember that he is an outlawed man, made desperate by hunger, hardened by the recollection of many crimes, and when in the cold, dark hall, with trembling hand you seek the errant key-hole, fancy that you hear behind you the stealthy tread, that you feel upon your tender neck the cold and clammy touch, of Slippery Mike. Fancy all this, I say, and come in before the lights are out. As a conscientious member of an upper class, I would not seek to inculcate undue superstition, but there...