Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...these marks is esteemed cultured, and since they depend largely upon leisure and wealth the ideas of culture and wealth have come to be so nearly associated that some persons have doubted if they could be separated. But my words will be of little use unless they refute this common idea. If then it does not consist in fine things does knowledge fulfill all the requirements of culture? Many persons are perfect store-houses of condition whom we would not call cultured. The first incentive of knowledge is the desire to apply it, a char acteristic of the Anglo-saxon...
...style of play developed by Yale, Harvard and Princeton. And this is the more striking when we reflect that the more evenly are the teams becoming matched, the more distinct does the individuality of the play of each college appear. As yet, however, Yale and Princeton have more in common in their respective games than have either of them with Harvard...
...afternoon. (6) Friday was given up to rhetoric. All students were taught the principles of rhetoric and were required to practice English composition and once a month declaim. (7) Saturday at eight o'clock in the morning, all the students were taught "Divinity Catecheticall" and at nine o'clock "Common Places." These latter were common topics of scholastic discussion and digests of doctrine, argument or opinion. (8) The last place in the curriculum was given to history and nature. At one o'clock Saturday afternoon, immediately after the twelve o'clock dinner, the students were taught history in the winter...
...which one can read between the lines is often an index to the value of a piece of writing. In this sketch any one whose experience has led him to sympathize with Daspaw can read words of truth between the lines. The story is very much out of the common order and outshines some of the best of the writing which has appeared in the Advocate this winter. "Fotheringhay" is an interesting description of the castle in which Mary Stuart met her sad fate...
...clock in the afternoon they meet in the chapel, where they are assigned seats and divided into three or five divisions, according to their entrance examinations. They have three recitations a day with the exception of Saturdays, when they have one and a lecture by the president upon "Common Sense and Righteousness." Sometimes during the first three months the freshman class is given a reception by President Ewight. About this time the freshmen begin to long to sit on the fence, but we are told that they cannot do this until they have beaten the Harvard freshmen at base-ball...