Word: enoughs
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...easy to see that the "theologians," as they are derisively called, are having a very hard time of it. The common people are presuming enough to inspect, and perhaps reject, the doctrines which are zealously laid before them, in much the same way that they have sometimes been known to refuse very good cold meat, or clothing not more than three quarters worn out. And, as if this were not enough, the men of "culture" assail them with all the opportunities for attack which can be furnished by extensive learning and a delicate taste for sarcasm. That the "theologians" will...
...assert then, what is trite enough, that it is not for our Freshmen to be over generous with what does not belong to them, Harvard's aquatic reputation, but to see that all the arrangements are equitable as well to Harvard as to Yale. Under these circumstances, which the Republican cannot but see justify us, it will be consonant with that paper's pretensions to not only state the case again, but retract its previous judgment...
...Monthly.THE Yale Courant is pleased to be severely sarcastic regarding our poetry. It is mortifying enough to meet with criticism at all from a paper whose columns are the receptacle of such wretched doggerel as the Courant affords. But in addition to this, to be wilfully misquoted is a little too much for good nature. Fair play, Courant, if you please...
...were glad to notice on the same occasion, that another graduate of Harvard, - an Episcopal clergyman, young enough to have sympathy with the students, - instantly hurled back the remarks to which we have alluded, instancing the fact of the crowded assemblies in Appleton Chapel on those occasions when simple eloquence and hearty zeal were the characteristics of the preacher. The different modes of address employed by the two gentlemen to whom we have alluded may be taken in illustration of the power which man exercises over his fellows, and of the force of plain dignified truth as opposed to specious...
...public men than those which come within the scope of this Bureau. One of the weightiest of these to be answered by the coming generations is the relation of Capital and Labor, about which ignorant men talk at random, and politicians make buncombe speeches; but nobody knows facts enough to give a valuable opinion. It is the facts which General Oliver's bureau is trying to obtain, and if we may trust what he has already collected, a thorough reformation is needed in the condition of the laboring classes. The oppression of the poorer class by Capital is none...