Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...learning for its own sake, or, rather, for the sake of its educational effect, and in our own time so strong has been the desire for a thorough cultivation and development of all the intellectual powers, with no regard to professional or pecuniary objects, that a new word to express it, or at least an old one with increased meaning, has come into use, In direct contrast to such a spirit is the system of rewards and punishments which Harvard is fast shaking off, - and of such a system is not the proposed plan a natural outgrowth? A few would...
...opportunity must not be lost to thank the Harvard crew for their uniform kindliness and courtesy toward our crew at Springfield last year, and to express the hope that the most cordial relations may always exist between the undergraduates of Harvard and Cornell...
...place in our college papers, and which we are sometimes permitted to enjoy in our best American monthlies. It partakes less of the nature of the ordinary iceberg criticism than of the friendly, genial nature of scholarly admiration. It is a result attainable by those who can felicitously express exactly what constitutes the peculiar charm of their book or author, and is not so valuable to the reader for any intrinsic merit of authority, as for its suggestions of what to read, and its pleasant hint of what one will find in his reading...
...most firm and unblushing fronts. Some few instances of sheepishness there were, to be sure, and one Freshman, on the entrance of the urbane investigators, bashfully retreated to his bedroom, whence he was dislodged with some difficulty. All admitted the meanness of the act, and several gentlemen could express the violence of their indignation only by the use of words which even sporting papers banish from their columns. Most of them had no doubt but that some Freshmen resident in the entry were the guilty men, but none had the faintest idea what Freshmen. A dignified impenetrability, in short, characterized...
They must be "mixed." However, as we are not included, we cannot express our desire for the convention...