Word: enough
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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DEAR JIM, - As you were kind enough to ask me in your last letter for some account of my life here, I will give it to you, with a fair warning that you brought it on yourself...
...Child is now giving on Tuesday evenings, and to the Lectures on English Literature which Mr. Perry proposes to begin next week. Both of these gentlemen have been giving courses of lectures in Boston this winter, but it is, of course, impossible for many of us to find time enough to attend a course of lectures in the city. It is therefore very pleasant to have such opportunities brought to our own door, and we sincerely hope that a considerable number of men will take advantage of them. There have been frequent calls for more lectures this year...
...roughest and most uncertain kind. A. B., for example, who is able to show that be has no property, and that nobody is legally bound to provide for him, may compete for a scholarship; C. D., on the contrary, who has in the savings-bank just money enough to pay his college bills, cannot ask for this privilege. And yet A. B., it may be, has a rich uncle, who, as is tacitly understood, will see that he wants nothing, and will give him a salaried place in his counting-room the moment he graduates; while C. D. must incur...
...forgotten that open scholarships would be fully available for all who are now able to avow necessitous circumstances, provided their work was good enough to gain them. The change would consist simply in completing the halting analogy between a scholarship and "a silver cup won in a boat race," - the winner of this latter "prize" not being forced to remember that a majority of the class (including, perhaps, some of the best oarsmen) were restrained from competing. Scholarships open to all would undoubtedly attract to Harvard men who ought to be here, but who are so situated that they cannot...
This is very Eastern, but purely figurative. Very few of this tribe have beards. A small mustache, not large enough to singe worth speaking of, is about...