Word: charming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...life on earth is always human life, the literature which deals with human life must always be the noblest literature; and, since the individual human life must always have a distinctness of interest, which cannot belong to any of the groups of human life, biography must always have a charm which no other kind of history can rival...
...priceless advantage of being the oldest seat of learning in the country. She has the largest and most famous body of alumni. Then in common with Yale and all the older colleges, she has gathered about her name a mass of tradition and sentiment which will ever charm the imagination, and waken the enthusiasm of her students. Furthermore, Harvard has inherited from the past not only these blessings, but she has acquired that tone of broad culture which time alone can give. In her the lapse of years has done so much to remove crudities that for a long period...
...will stop in his place when he gets there. Good physical qualifications are necessary. Nearly every successful lawyer breaks down in middle life. Intellectual effort alone will rarely kill. It is anxiety that kills. The law is not infinite. An enlightened understanding and command of it is possible. Charm of voice and manner is desirable, but not necessary to success. A soothing and composed manner, tack, and good judgment especially, are desirable. Successful lawyers are, as a rule, honest men. Great chances don't announce themselves before hand. You must have the thing on your mind all the time...
...essays Matthew Arnold writes: "Who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection? Adorable dreamer, whose heart has been so romantic! Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!" To-day such words are only partly true of Harvard, though less true of any other college in our land. Yet if we are to have that feeling of love and reverence for her, which the Englishman has for Oxford, she must become, in some sense, a "Queen...
...There is plenty of available ground within the limits of the yard, and there are many rich alumni of Harvard who are anxiously awaiting a chance to bestow large fortunes upon the university. Under such favorable circumstances it seems as if something might be done that would add a charm to many a man's student life, and also save him from the positively cruel knives of the local landlords...