Word: evening
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...years, and at the end of that time be unfitted - so far as German was concerned - to take either of the courses in history. The reason is, that what has been read in the regular courses has been mostly or wholly poetry and easy fiction, the styles and even the vocabularies of which are radically different from those employed by the German historical writers...
...Headache all day. Have returned to my club-table. "Slum" may be cheap and healthy, but I lose too much flesh on it. Have given up Gymnasium. Walking is far healthier, even around a billiard-table...
...summer morning drifting through the open window are most delightfully mingled with our dreams. Vainly will others extol to us the virtues of great draughts of the freshest, clearest hours of the day; these we, too, taste and delicately enjoy with a relish that the votaries of, even anticipating the monarch and definer of the day, cannot appreciate or imagine...
...Even if it were productive of the best health and the most devotional feeling to have to get up early and hear the prayers of another, or watch them from beyond hearing distance, those who compel us to do such things cannot imagine how great an incentive to resignation it would be if a few more of them would keep us company. Misery loves company, and it is a great aggravation to our discomfort that we are never permitted to see tutor or professor with hair unkempt and coat buttoned up around his throat. Men who would show such...
...girls in the public and private schools often display a great capacity for study, and often lead the boys, this fact proving that they are not mentally or physically disqualified for brain work. Mr. Phillips further called attention to the absurdity of demanding from women great talent, or genius even, before they are allowed the privilege of the higher education...