Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...what keeps toadyism alive, the obvious answer is the desire to be popular. Frankness of expression is not compatible with a certain popularity. Nay, more, if you would be popular, you must not by your silence let it be suspected that you inwardly frown on most or much or even some of your neighbors' modes of thought and action. Silence, because men do not know how much you disapprove, is more feared than open censure, and in the uncertainty your disapproval is overestimated, and in proportion feared...
...replied severely, "I am proud to state that I have never seen even the outside of the Howard Athenaeum ! " This in a loud tone of voice, much to the surprise of the rest of the people...
...brother member of the press who sits high aloft beyond the pale of criticism, and casts his blunt weapons down at us. We are too greatly prostrated to attempt any palliation, and if we hazard facing him again, it is only to insinuate that in a future case even he, powerful conjurer though he be, must needs exert himself to introduce more blue and less crimson into his already falsely drawn picture. It does seem a little odd, now that we think of it, that "the eleven-men game was a concession originally to Harvard, made two years ago," when...
...these men are Bohemians, but they are mild compared to him who sits sub iisdem trabibus and even super eadem trabe -I shall elect Latin -with me in U. 13. University! cheerful as the Catacombs! I always enter it with much the same feeling that I would a great mausoleum. The gloom which comes over me deepens as I take my seat, for I know that my dexter companion will give me no repose. My Plutonic melancholy, the heated room, the dull Livy, -all are conducive to slumber; the very instructor seems admirably chosen to that end: but my naps...
Mathematics was the bane of Sumner's college life. He did not even cut the leaves of some of his text-books in this department; and on one occasion, instead of the simple "Not prepared," he said to the instructor, "I don't know; you know I don't pretend to know anything about mathematics." The instructor turned the tables by replying, "Mathematics! don't you know the difference? This is not mathematics. This is physics...