Word: evening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unfortunate that the latest records of balloons in hurricanes and racing locomotives are not at our disposal, but since jumping off bridges, running through whirl-pools in barrels, and eating quails are henceforth to be graven on tablets, perhaps some day reliable records of even these strange things may be officially preserved...
Strangers from other institutions, even those from the largest and most famous universities of the country, invariably express their astonishment at the Oberlin music. Neither Harvard nor Yale, neither Amherst nor Ann Arbor can compare with us in musical advantages, and it certainly does not speak well. - Oberlin Review...
...fine philosophical mind; and like the "little learning" which is so dangerous, a smattering of philosophical cant develops a sophistical way of thinking and reasoning that is often absolutely destructive to high purposes. How many of the amateur philosophers and nineteenth Greeks in college to-day could give even a plausible reason for the constitutionality of a bill in Congress - a question asked on a recent examination paper. And if they could not answer intelligently to themselves, whether the promoters and the signers of such a bill were doing their country a service, pray how much more intelligent voters...
...such institutions as the Lawrence school, whose graduates include a large number of prominent and influential men. If success is to be measured by the share taken in the labor of bringing neglected studies into their proper position, the liberality of Abbott Lawrence and James Lawrence has been successful even beyond their hopes...
...given twenty-five years ago claimed to represent a certain amount of knowledge, and indicated roughly the chief sources of that knowledge. The Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Philosophy had studied little or no Greek, more rarely no Latin. In no case did the degree claim to represent even a minimum of culture. In this sense all degrees were and always will be more or less indefinite. But let us not mix up two things that are so easily kept separate, and which ought to be so kept. All experience proves that now and then a student only wastes...