Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...inappropriate connections. It is a melancholy fact that this school, if we may call it such, has found its chief supporters at Harvard. In marked contrast to it, is the school of the wild, the metaphysical, the intensely poetical poets, who commune with their shape-teeming grates, and draw deep thoughts from their beer-mugs. The poets of this school are carefully excluded - in their wild moods - from the papers of the Eastern colleges; but in the free and unbounded West they flourish like so many green bay-trees, and rack their brains for metaphors which would set Pope...
...came: "In a certain case, what is the defence advocated by Reid and Stewart, and what are Hamilton's objections to it, - explaining, also, his defence?" "Give in full the rules of the P. R." Six questions like these were certainly enough for one hour. Happy he who could draw, who understood perspective and foreshortening! I tried diagrammatic representations, and got the ring and appointments complete, but the arms and legs of the fighters were inextricably mixed. Which was hitting, and which was hit, nobody could tell. It was the end of the hour, and I had just finished...
...praise, but also something to condemn in despatch. It is liable to deteriorate, and result in hurry and confusion, which seldom succeed, even under favorable circumstances. Foreigners notice especially the fast way in which our business men get through life. As though the fund of energy from which they draw were inexhaustible, they overwork the mind by continuous and intense toil; driving through life with an anxious, careworn look, and without consideration, giving themselves up to labor, so that middle age finds them with the work of life accomplished; worn out, and unable to obtain enjoyment from the pleasures which...
...felt in any Evangelical prayer-meeting, and have been very recently commended to the writer by a Yale Theological Professor. Next, in order of age, stands the St. Paul's Society, founded in 1861. This, again, may be compared to an Episcopal church. It is designed to draw Episcopalians together, "afford them opportunities of uniting in worship agreeably to the spirit and forms of their church, and of giving counsel and support in the performance of Christian duties." Then, closing the list, and founded in 1871, is the Christian Union. This also may be compared to a Unitarian church...
...language which transgressed the bounds of good taste, - in other words, when either was roused to profane remarks, - we should deposit in a box for the purpose one cent for every such remark, and the money thus obtained should constitute a charity-fund. Whenever a beggar applied, either could draw out of the fund any sum at his discretion...