Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...part of the building was filled by a crowded audience. After a voluntary on the organ, the Rev. Dr. Ripley offered a solemn and fervent prayer. Although more than eighty years of age, he spoke in a clear and powerful voice. Like the Jewish leader, 'his eyes were not dim, nor his natural force abated...
...instruction is of the highest order and extremely thorough. The requirements for admission are the same as those of Harvard in past years. The young ladies recite with their brother-students, and seem to have a peculiar propensity for leaving them in the dim and shadowy distance. The visitor has a strange sensation of unrest as he hears, while passing a recitation room, "Mr. Smith, account for this very strange construction." "Can't do it, sir;" and then hears Miss Jones say that it is an anacolouthon. No wonder, he thinks, that so many of our colleges reject co-education...
During the two or three years before his entrance to college, it is true, the boy feels some dim forebodings of trouble ahead; but a decisive step to meet it is seldom taken. Human nature is weak, and the issue is generally avoided, while the anxious son consoles himself with the thought that years may bring wisdom to the dear parents...
...have emerged, at last, from the dark valley of the semis, and find ourselves to-day once more upon the level and pleasant plain of every-day student life. Life is very endurable now, with the semis just passed, and the finals yet dim in the distance. But let us remember the virtuous resolutions made while frantically struggling to get up four minth's work in a single night,- resolutions to master each day's work as it becomes due. For, slowly, yet very surely, the inevitable finals are creeping on, when once more will "the mourners go about...
...first, one is struck by the utter absurdity, and nonsense of the book,- just as the swuare was with the story of the sphere,-but if one will have the perseverance to read it through to the end, he will at last see its purpose, at first dim. It is evidently an allegory written with the purpose of reminding us that we should not be incredulous of opinions other than our own, but should try to realize that there is some other view of looking at a matter besides the one which we are at present using. In explaining Flatland...