Word: books
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...beginning of the dissertation pick out a brilliant passage from your Sophomore themes. This will attract attention; and if it seem abrupt, the objection against abrupt beginnings is not well founded. [See Hill's Rhet., Book II. Chap. VI.] A similar quotation somewhat longer and, if possible, more brilliant will make a good conclusion. The intervening part, the body of the dissertation, should be carefully arranged, and have several marked divisions. Such divisions encourage the reader, for, without counting the remaining pages, he can see that he is drawing nearer the end; and they also are extremely handy when...
...fling the book unto the boisterous wind...
When my neighbor calls to return a borrowed book, and for a whole hour imposes upon me his theories respecting the Eastern Question, all of which it required less than five minutes to glean from an article in a newspaper of the evening previous, I fully realize this evil. How soothing to my impatience is his assurance that he was not aware time was passing so quickly, when to me ages were slowly wearing away...
...exasperating when at last I have succeeded in obtaining from the library a long-coveted book, and am hurrying to my room to indulge in the rich treat in store, to meet a real Socrates, who buttonholes me through the Yard, persisting in lecturing me on the Antwerp galleries, which he had visited last vacation, when the criticisms of a Ruskin or a Reynolds might have been enjoyed instead...
...some extent this curse contains the seeds of its own destruction, for prosy talkers soon become known, and are anxiously avoided as a pest. But they cannot always be evaded, for prosiness is not wholly confined to talkers, although with them it is most common. But in books, and in our lecture and recitation rooms, it is but too often met with; and the student, bending over a text-book or within the sound of the voice of a teacher, finds his thoughts distracted and wandering away from the subject, which should absorb his whole attention. Instead of brief, simple...