Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reflection. In our great dining hall, why should the hundreds who enter three times daily be restricted to cold water only, two bowls and two towels. We wish to emphasize the cold water part of the complaint. There must be hot water in quantity on the premises, so why cannot some of it be turned into this channel of usefulness...
...born, of where they spend their lives. This is also true of the place of education. The man who comes to Yale University does so as a free agent, but if he once enters, a silent and irresistible influence comes upon his own being independently of its choice. He cannot overcome the power. It works on every part of his manhood. We are members of one family in the largest sense. Even the son who perverts the influence of Yale to his own destruction, is not the same as if he had never come here. He is not only...
...which the new Clark University is to be founded, stand two of the oldest and largest universities in the country; and within a surrounding territory not larger than some single western states which has no good university, are found Harvard, Yale, Williams Dartmouth, Brown, Bowdoin and Colby. We cannot have too many endowments of this generous kind for educational purposes in our young country; but with all respect to the good intentions of the donor, we cannot help feeling that in view of the great wants elsewhere and the superabundance in this locality, the gift is rendered comparatively useless...
...Waft of Summer" follows, which, though a good idea, fails to show itself on account of the words used. We cannot conceive of the wind "loitering" in "snow dust" that is "sculpturisque and fine...
...Night" by W. A. Leahy, follows, and we cannot help asking, - Why must a college man - or any other, - when writing poetry, think that it consists in placing the best where the worst should be and vice-versa, and in trampling the sense under the feet of most extraordinary similes and metaphors. There is good thought in this piece but it is so "hidden" that one finds difficulty in discerning it. About half way through the poem - we regret the inability to quote, - the metaphors clear away, and for some time there is real poetry we honestly think...