Word: colder
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Doun colder have they got the Harvaurd swinge...
...colder still the heart within thy breast...
...this responsibility was not enough to make him absent-minded, yet one would suppose that a tolerably well-brought-up mule would know that a day in January with the wind blowing at the rate of fifty miles an hour, and the thermometer feeling after the floor, was colder than the spring days of April; but not so my scout. All through the winter he used to put barely coal enough on the fire to keep it from going out, and would leave the door open and me shivering as long as he could. But now mark the change...
...authorities have expressed their conviction, based on experiment, that prayers are not necessary for the discipline of the college; the other grounds for maintaining them are religious. How much devotion is conceivable in students sitting in a chapel where the temperature is 36, and where continual draughts of much colder air are pouring over them? Praying in such cold as this is unparalleled even in the asceticism of the Middle Ages...
...instruction is that we apply it indiscriminately to all students. Now, one has a faculty for philosophy, another for languages; one has a synthetic, another an analytic mind; some, born under the ardent rays of the southern sun, have more imagination than judgment; while others, living in the colder regions of the north, have a more severe character, - with such the reasoning is superior to the other faculties; no matter, the course of study is the same for all. All minds are run into the same mould. The germs of all originality are destroyed, every intelligence is measured...