Word: comee
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Their opinions are received by attentive minds and have their influence upon us, not because they come from gray hairs, but because we recognize them as the results of long meditation upon subjects of actual and faithful investigation. From the contrast between the two kinds of instruction we have received, the belief must come that the Freshman year is only a period of initiation, during which you receive the contempt of all, from the highest official to the goody, in order that you may afterward enjoy their greater favor...
...Canal in silence, only broken by the cry of some gondolier, shooting out from the shadow into the Canal. He looks like some Charon in the gloomy light of the candles looming through the mist. Soon the hum of many voices breaks on me, and, turning a bend, I come on the Rialto, which is one mass of fire...
...fable of the hare and the tortoise tells us how the latter by "strict attention to business" defeated one whom the world had come to look upon as her superior...
...single-scull race, which did not take place on the day of the Fall races, was to come off Wednesday afternoon, but was again postponed, on account of the roughness of the water...
...very entertaining pamphlet, being sometimes highly ludicrous at places where "the laugh" was hardly intended to "come in" by the author. It is written from the antediluvian-proslavery point of view. Unparalleled and impossible virtues are invented for the past, and every exceptional case of transgression in modern times dragged into comparison with a shadowy ideal of Mr. Josselyn's own; when this portion of his stock in trade has become exhausted, he resorts to calling good things by bad names, which does quite as well. Strengthened by these advantages, he has succeeded, within the narrow compass of some seven...