Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...familiar service which gives utterance to the primary, daily needs of every man. References to passing events may serve to attract attention - if made eloquently they may move, if made blunderingly they may amuse or disgust - but the office of daily prayers is to bring the passing and casual under the shadow of the eternal; to make a man feel that amid the confusion of his hurried life, he can lay hold of an unvarying, underlying truth...
...nothing is so frequently remarked upon by the visitor at our university, and especially by students from other colleges, than the great number of note-books seen in the hands and on the shelves of undergraduates. They are not the small, insignificant scribbling books used to jot down the casual remarks of an instructor on some of the time-worn topics; but are in most cases noble quartos in which goes the very essence of the latest researches by our learned professors, who vie with each other to lay the "newest thing" before their attentive pupils...
...feeling, we had almost said the degrees of civilization, prevailing in the several parts of our broad land, The critical reader will easily detect differences in the tone of the kindred publications of our eastern colleges; between North, South, and West, the gulf is too wide for the most casual reader to overlook. Here in the north we have reached the stage of devotion to the aesthetic, so well illustrated by the Century and Harpers'. Sketches and stories whose aim is some artistic form and merit have for the most part replaced the cruder, if perhaps more thoughtful, essays...
Harvard, though nominally out of foot-ball, has yet sufficient interest in the game to form class foot-ball teams and play for a "cup." This is rather startling. To the casual observer it would appear that Harvard, wearied of always coming out well down the list, had decided to take a year off, devote her time to the advancement of general interest in the game and then come in next year with a large number of fine players to choose from. - Yale Record...
...interesting phase of the elective system was suggested by the casual remarks of one of our professors recently. The remark was to the effect that there was too great a tendency to choose the "practical" courses in the curriculum; that men were thus in danger of losing the peculiar benefit which a college education is supposed to impart. Considering the fact that the slurs of the country press are aimed at a supposed tendency towards the choice of Fine Art, Natural History, Spanish and Italian courses, the leaning towards the other extreme is worthy of comment. This is a phase...