Word: evens
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...person can hardly walk through the older part of Boston without passing some spot or building which is closely associated with Revolutionary times. Commerce has destroyed many other places of equal note, and even these are passing away before the demands of trade. The utilitarian spirit of the times, not content with destroying the houses in which some of our forefathers lived, reaches out with an eager hand even toward their last resting-place...
...same building with the school are rooms for the old pensioners ("cods," from "codger," the boys called them), whose number, about eighty, the old bell rings out every night just as Big Tom at Oxford gives the number of students in Christ College. There is something very pleasant and even touching in this union under one roof of lives so different as the careless school-boy's, with all the world before him, and the pensioner's in his black gown, with his work all done and only waiting for his dismissal. That most beautiful passage...
...have the art of poetry by all means; nay, let us even have a professor of poetry (Mr. Rhetor Beduzle suggested). Let us have society poetry, class poetry, elective poetry, youthful-soaring poetry, poetry by the cord. Let us, for literary exercise, think in poetry, and write chemical reactions in rhythm, and for economy kindle our fires with glowing thoughts. But let us not be surprised if the spirit of Poesy visits us but seldom. Practice may improve metre and the combination of words, but the spirit of Poesy, with her mysterious beauty, comes unexpectedly and vanishes quickly. In silence...
...been scholars, and almost all the bad have not. On the contrary, it has been our impression that so nearly have all the statesmen or would-be statesmen, both good and bad, who have yet attained any note in this country, been well educated, that a self-educated man even has there been looked upon with wonder and admiration, as a sort of curiosity. More than this, all the public men of the worst sort, as well as the best, upon whom our eyes have rested, have been noticeably well-spoken, well-appearing, gentlemanly people, whom it would be impossible...
...snobbishness of the Etonians and the servility of those whom he would opprobriously call chizzywags. This honorable dependence, which can neither lessen self-respect nor increase self-conceit, makes the school thoroughly republican in custom and feeling, the only aristocracy being that of talent and good-fellowship, so that even when the sons of a gentleman and his coachman were school-fellows, the same respect was extended to both. Besides this, the school owes much of its high tone to its old traditions, ceremonies, buildings, and even dress,* all of which tend to impress a boy with the importance...