Word: eyesight
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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CHEMISTRY, I believe, is one of the popular departments here. All my friends seem to have electives in it, including even Simpkins, who is studying mineralogy to improve his eyesight. Heaven knows there's need of improvement, for he is near-sighted, cross-eyed, and, according to Dr. Jeffries, color-blind. I don't elect Chemistry; in fact, I know so little about it that at the dinner-table, when the Freshman who has heard Cook's lectures asks me to "approximate the H2O," I stare stupidly at him, and cannot understand that he wishes me to pass...
...windows right before us we have a full view of Thayer or Weld, as the case may be, so curiously and fantastically distorted by the peculiar quality of glass used at Harvard as irresistibly to distract the attention of our imaginative and speculative mind. As the preservation of our eyesight ought to be one of the chief objects attended to, we hope that the architects will devise some way to avoid the existing evils...
...worthless, that I habitually pass them by without notice, and think no more of their prattle than an elephant thinks of the buzz of a fly, which may soar in the air above him, but which in that very flight goes beyond the range of ordinary eyesight, and which can never hope to attract attention while its mighty fellow-creature is at hand...
...JUNIOR, eager for knowledge, has lost his eyesight from too great use of the midnight Hoyle...