Word: elements
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Harvard held peaceful sway from their throne of elms to the hills beyond the meadows. Peelers were unknown; offenders against the peace feared rather a dignified reproof in the shape of a few lines of good old Anacreon, than the rubicund justice of a Portchuck beak. Even the mucker element (which we may consider represented by the associates of Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck) was more in sympathy with the unfettered student and the lurking proctor, than the peremptory and unromantic system of the officials of modern and un-civil...
...merely as an end. Both views are true when taken together; the relation of one part of the universe to another is that of the parts of a great painting which are true in themselves, but lack something unless united. Upon this view rests the belief in the "ideal element which is the life of all things," and which, "taking up into itself all the results of our analysis, assumes a grandeur and a glory that had never been possible before." Here, then, is the gain of History, that in this age, "by the combination and utilization of our results...
EDITORS MAGENTA, - In view of the new boating-system at Harvard, you asked me to write you what I know about college rowing here. The science of rowing, or, rather, of turning out a good crew, may be resolved into one grand and simple element, and a few minor ones. The all important element is "tubbing"; a "tub" being a clinker-built boat about twelve feet long and four wide, with an experienced oarsman sitting in the stern, and two green hands, or otherwise, at the oars. I say "or otherwise," for even the members of the 'Varsity are tubbed...
...regretted war from which we have just emerged has apparently opened our eyes. The question is now asked whether our system of national education possesses in reality all the merits which we have been accustomed to attribute to it; whether, indeed, it is not possible that it was an element of our national weakness, and a cause of our reverses...
...sure to succeed far better. But it is by no means necessary for a lawyer to ever appear in court to attain success, and some who do attain it, and that in the highest degree, are never known to speak in public. And last, but most important as an element of success, is placed honesty, which, considered as policy alone, is a necessity to any one who would for any length of time hold the respect of his clients. As a worthy example of this style of lawyer reference was made to Sumner, "who was true to his own convictions...