Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...things are best perceived through their influence upon the objects about them. We know that there is a fog on account of the obscurity which it casts about all objects sensible to the vision; so we may perceive the evil of competitive examinations by the manner in which they dim the keenness of the moral perceptions of those affected by them. The mind will not be broadened by an education which is built on the competitive examination system; rather, it will be narrowed by the most superficial and selfish ambition-the rank-list. Knowledge is no longer sought for knowledge...
...doubtlessly a great source of annoyance and inconvenience for those who rely upon gas-light by which to do their evening reading, to have the light grow so dim that they can scarcely distinguish the letters before them. Such a state of affairs must, however, be borne with the best grace possible for the next two or three days. A leak has been discovered in one of the principal gas mains in Cambridgeport and while this is being repaired, the college dormitories are dependant upon the gas supply brought over from East Cambridge. The work of repairing has been rendered...
...find the key-hole. It seems absurd that so childish a regulation as this should exist. The college would be doing the students a great kindness if it would allow some lights to be left burining after twelve. We do not ask a brilliant illumination, but only a dim light sufficient to guide us on the way to our rooms...
...buildings, vases, irons, etc., but it soon advances to the inscriptions on tombs, coins, obelisks. The purpose of these inscriptions was not historic, but such is their use today. The rhetorical panegyric conveys history, although its object is to magnify some popular hero. Letters have been saved from a dim sense of their future use. The separation of the Germans and the French after the dismemberment of the Empire of Charlemagne is shown unconsciously by a treaty between Louis and Charles, his grandchildren, which was sanctioned by an oath repeated by each sovereign in the language of the other. Thus...
...Camp, George Adee, Walter Badger, and Sam Bremner - were opposed to the scheme; and their opposition seems to have converted all those who had previously inclined the other way. Like the chicken who was convinced that the sky was falling, when a rose leaf dropped upon her back, the dim suspicion of an "alliance" between Harvard and Princeton frightened the Yalensians into refusing. "Treason! Treason!" was the general cry of the assembly...