Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...such a "glorious" time. The pursuit of happiness in this world is so fatally sure to end in bitter disappointment, that any transient glimpse of it which we may obtain only serves to make the final catastrophe less bearable. The great object in life - or rather of existence, for even our few moments of reasoning existence hardly deserve the name of life - I take to be somewhat as follows: in all things to approach as nearly as possible to perfect rest. If the hope of a future state of happiness is not the dream of a mere enthusiast...
...discipline of the college; the other grounds for maintaining them are religious. How much devotion is conceivable in students sitting in a chapel where the temperature is 36, and where continual draughts of much colder air are pouring over them? Praying in such cold as this is unparalleled even in the asceticism of the Middle Ages...
...American college life was a little disturbed, as was anticipated, by the novel pebble which some six of its representatives agreed to toss into it a week ago. Of the few ripples it occasioned some satisfactory ones extended over parts of New York and New Jersey, and one even came as near as a remote corner of Massachusetts...
There is so much to be said on the educational principles involved, that it devolves on us with double force to keep widely distinct the best purpose they may serve and the unimportant use they may have first been put to. Yet, even in this spirit there seems less of promise in these contests than their most ardent friends among us, if there be any such, could reasonably expect. A singular apathy in regard to the whole contest is as apparent as it is wide-spread. Whether or not this apathy is without good foundation will be somewhat tested...
...establishment of this association will prove our sense of justice in one direction only; we shall not be entirely free from the imputation of unfairness even when we are reaping these inestimable advantages. We shall be attacked in another quarter...