Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Westchester in a year which will be a "glorious year for America" if bells, cannons, and newspapers can make it so, I caught the Centennial fever! Every historical spot, from the "dead man's swamp" to the battle-field of White Plains, was sought out with patriotic zeal. I even tried to stop and drink at every old farm-house where Washington is said to have refreshed himself, but I gave it up. (G. W. must have been uncommonly thirsty...
...fell on the road, and with half-spent force was rolling along, when a farmer spied it, and, thinking it might be running away from somebody, put out his foot to arrest it; the mass X velocity was too much for the farmer; the ball continued on in the "even tenor of its ways" with about two thirds of his leg. This deliberate appropriation of his own personal property so enraged the honest man that he ran after the ball (pretty good for a man with one leg), and bringing it home put it in his cellar. Like the famous...
...mound-builders, a hopelessly savage people. With the aid of the magic power which they drew from the sun, they gained complete control of the whole region, but they were at first unable to civilize the natives. The aboriginal race had sunk to such a depth of degradation that even the divine power of the gods could not of itself raise them. When Munnee and Boshor discovered this, they spat upon the earth, and a great river sprang forth which divided the world into two parts. On one side of the river they placed all the men, and upon...
...scheme" to which I have referred is not to be regarded as a still valid constitution, nowhere that I know can a clear definition of the powers and duties of the officers be found, and not even in that scheme is there any provision for the direct or indirect responsibility of these officers to the Association. The annual election of officers, from a mistaken but widespread idea that any government of students will be overruled by the influence of the President or the Corporation, is not viewed as an event of any importance, and we have therefore great reason...
...entirely disregarded that any settled course of policy is impossible, and the society is led on, step by step, by mere momentary whims of the majority, or by the influence of its affairs, until the original constitution is entirely forgotten. At Memorial Hall, however, the case is even worse than this, since there no constitution is to be found; for the "Scheme for carrying on the Dining Hall" was, as "A Director" has claimed, valid only for a year, and we are now left with merely a general understanding that the Hall is to be managed to the best...