Word: evening
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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These facts are enough to show the unfairness of Mr. Reiley's covert attack on Harvard, even supposing all his strictures on Mr. Allen's Latin were correct. But Mr. R. apparently has yet to learn, what every experienced Latin teacher does learn, that it is very unsafe to say that anything is bad Latin. He certainly has detected some serious mistakes, - one, over which he gets specially exultant, in the conjugation of a verb, - one so very bad that a candid reviewer would have recognized it at once, to use Macaulay's expression on a similar occasion...
...even Launcelot brave nor Galahad clean...
...such or such researches; but investigation once set afoot, the laws of thought, of evidence, and of logic, and not rules of action, conduct us to truth or falsehood, and thus when rules of morality, as well as all else, are subjected to the scrutiny of reason, they cease even indirectly to influence mental growth and become themselves the product of thought. Thus do we find, superstitions apart, that moral character is the perfect blossom of culture, which differs in several regards from the author's remark. To say that the cultured man is the perfect man, and must therefore...
...considered a bore, and, if endowed with a fair amount of sensitiveness, withdraws, feeling little less hurt than if he had not been admitted. At Oxford and Cambridge the custom is universally followed, and accepted as necessary and convenient. A refusal of admittance is not taken as an impoliteness even. The custom may be followed here to some extent by the harder working portion of students, but the less studious class seldom resort to it. It is perhaps even of more importance to the latter class than to the former, for they endeavor in the last day, perhaps hour...
Proud if her rustling dress might even touch...