Word: better
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...than happiness in this narrow sense, but not so wise when we find that what the author means is that "a person who in a materialistic age is willing to renounce all pleasures but those derived from the possession of a good conscience and the contemplation of virtue had better retire to the wilds of Mount Athos or to the society of Mr. Ruskin...
...capacities? Yet how impossible to satisfy these capacities, in this life at least! This the author of "Success" recognizes, and the conclusion he comes to is given in the passage already quoted from him, in which he seems to side with those who think we should be better off here if we had no desires that could not be satisfied with terrestrial things, - a state which does not exist, even as Carlyle says in the passage I have quoted...
...last class, but for all, - a course, or a series of courses, which shall not be just thorough enough to make us wish that it was more perfect, but one which shall develop all one's powers in that direction. Of the truth of our remarks we think no better test could be applied, than the fact that so many men have of their own accord, and in addition to the regular required work, availed themselves of the opportunity offered...
...when it becomes dark so early, the dormitory entries need lights much earlier; yet we are left to grope and stumble through them till long after every breakneck combination of circumstances has been repeatedly stumbled over, and profanity has become fashionable. We look for a change for the better in this matter, and trust that it will not have to be effected through the College circumlocution office...
...prospects of the Harvard Medical College were never better. The number joining it from the class of 1874 was unusually large. The effort now being made towards the erection of a new building is well supported, and will no doubt result in success...