Word: bestness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...daily papers remarks blaming the Massachusetts Legislature for granting money to the Museum of Zoology. Such articles evince an exceedingly mean and narrow spirit, which is luckily not shared in by a majority of opulent and influential citizens. The Museum, even in its present condition, is the best in the country; and its extension and improvement will confer honor, not only on the University, but on the State. It has reached its present position mainly through the personal efforts and the personal popularity of Professor Agassiz. But to extend the building or even to support its present necessary expenses, large...
...history of Wabash College is a powerful argument for the efficiency of prayer. The increase of students and patrons, funds continually augmented by the most liberal donations, and steadily advancing power and influence, give the best assurances to its officers that their supplications have been heard. To those 'seeking a sign,' both the recent gift and numerous others from the same source afford the strongest evidence of Divine assistance. Nor could Professor Tyndall's elaborate theory be more admirably refuted than by these wonderful proofs." - Geyser...
...note them amongst the aspirants after the chief places in societies and associations, Christian, scientific, or literary, and discover them, without the use of glasses, in our college halls. That which most astonishes us is the fact that those who thus court and attain popularity are not always the best or the most deserving of their fellows, and are apt to meet their own level when Time holds the microscope to their defects, and lays bare the selfish motives and small machinery by which their policy has been made active and for a time, successful. Your politic...
...college the most careful and painstaking students receive the highest percentage of marks; but they are not brilliant men, nor do their fellows always admit that they are the best scholars. Thus, certain affable, graceful, and politic men, able in popular amusements, are admitted into clubs and societies to the exclusion of others who, when weighed by real merit, would be more entitled to the privilege and honor. There is far too much of this politic seeking for popularity in college; the methods are many, and the results various. Popularity which is sought after and courted is a dangerous thing...
...seventeenth year, he never saw a book, sir, nor a page, nor a line, sir. He was brought up in the deepest dirt, sir, and degradation, sir." Could Mr. Bounderby himself have said more? Here was a poet in a strange shape, indeed. His origin was none of the best, and, we were assured, up to the time of his introduction to his publisher, he invariably ate his beefsteak (raw) with a bowie-knife...