Word: evening
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...days, if a young man has been brilliant in his studies, or even if he has obtained some prize for a Latin poem or Greek theme, it is enough to make him persuade himself that he is born for something other than business or industry of any kind. In this the University is at one with the spirit of the clergy. Both have very little that is practical. Professors and priests have leisure to plunge into the delightful study of Greek and Roman antiquity. Accordingly, their tastes and their profession lead them to recommend classical studies. The moment that they...
...many books which every educated man wishes to select for himself at his leisure, - books which he does not care to purchase until he has at least looked through them, - books interesting to him because connected with some subject which he has studied, though not to the majority of even intelligent readers...
...must be very apparent to any one who has watched the vicissitudes of the various class crews this spring, that some new system of boating is much needed. The constant changes which have taken place in almost every boat on the river, and which are going on even now, two weeks before the race, are very disheartening...
...Pickerings, and the Roger Paynes he has collected; and though our opportunities for seeing really fine typography in this country are so rare that we are not trained to appreciate the delicate finish of these books, yet one cannot help admiring the vellum and gilding, the colored leather, and even the ivory and precious stones. The handsomest books in the collection are two reprints of old books full of monkish illustrations of the Florentine school, the one a translation of the Imitation of a Kempis, the other the Livre d'Heures de la Reine Anne de Bretagny. There is also...
...cannot help attributing a greater value to an increase in the amount of instruction in this direction, on account of the alarming degree of ignorance which prevails in some parts of the country and even in the minds of many of our legislators. This ignorance has been disagreeably apparent during the discussion on the currency bill now before Congress. Of late we have read nothing but repeated protests against the folly of inflation, and complaints of the wilfulness of Congressmen, who, through ignorance, are unconsciously heightening the dangers of a worthless paper-currency. Either the nature of values has been...