Word: deal
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...another room, we find a handsome set of shelves of the "Eastlake pattern," filled with well-bound books. The whole affair adds a great deal to the general effect of the room. In fact, it harmonizes perfectly with everything else there. It is neither too large nor too small, too wide nor too high. The books are not too brightly gilt, nor are they too sombre. But this is the very thing that leads me to doubt. I cannot believe that, however sincere in construction the book-case may be, the owner's heart is in his books. I fear...
Later on we got to the Colleges, which occupy a great deal of valuable property, and, I was informed, almost entirely support the expenses of the city. The Yard was very gay with hacks and stages, and looked as cheerful as our old camp-meetings. It was very different from the Puritanic university Prexie Short Hair told us of; but, then, he came there in vacation, and may have got a one-sided idea of student life at Harvard...
...HAVE lately seen a good deal of discussion in outside quarters as to what we are doing here at Harvard, and it has set me to thinking upon what strikes me as being a very serious error in our present system. It has become generally admitted in Europe, that one gains more from his University course if he spends his time on one department of study, than by "spreading" himself over a variety of subjects. And even here it is gradually getting to be acknowledged that a thorough education is better than a superficial one. Now, no one will maintain...
...otherwise no change be made, the hours for recitation remaining just as they are. This arrangement would leave to those who desired it a full hour and a half between breakfast and the first recitation hour; time enough for the review of work already prepared or for a good deal of further preparation...
...romance-writers ground out their dreary tunes. If the seventeenth-century novels give a true picture of the life of that day, one cannot help thinking how differently life, as regards conversation, was arranged then from what it is now. In those times every one had a good deal to say, and had plenty of time to say it without interruption; but now, although we are just as talkative as our ancestors, we don't reel off our speech all at once, for, if we did, we should be called bores; but we break it up into short sentences...