Word: eying
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...College, England, also Sims, who lived latterly in Charlestown. There is no portrait or description of John Harvard known to be in existence, but the present statue, the exquisite model in bronze, is an ideal image. But let it be understood that the statue, only by influencing the mind, eye and thoughts serves to call up an ideal representation of the man. It is indeed true that an ideal model is a fit one to take the place of the unattainable statue or portrait ; to flatter is not always to falsify. Besides the Latin "simulacha" does not always distinguish between...
...this comes out with a new cover which is very elaborate and tasteful in design, representing an editional sanctum and the college pine, side by side. This makes another paper which has followed the present custom of having decorated covers, and one which is certainly more pleasing to the eye. The other, exchanges so far are the same in appearance as last year...
...found a solution of the problem which has been puzzling the brains of educators for a number of years past,-how to teach modern languages in classes so that they may become real and live to the students. The scheme is to educate the ear as well as the eye by assiduous practice, so that the languages can be spoken as well as read, and it is almost useless for us to add that this method is the only thoroughly satisfactory one. English, for the time being, is left behind entirely, and all conversation is carried on maforeign tongue. Such...
...social entertainment and amusements of the town of Oxford are few, he need never be at a loss for occupation, for the university is most completely a world by itself, which possesses innumerable sources of amusement on account of this very absence of outside attractions. Oxford presents a birds-eye-view, as it were, of English social life. Many of the clubs are copies of the London clubs, and social distinctions, which were formerly preserved with absurd exactness still exist, and the young representatives of the English nobility are still apt to secure the big prizes in the contest...
...curious custom is prevalent in Indiana. Every year in the spring time when the trees are on the point of budding a special day is set apart as a holiday in all the education institutions of the state. This early spring festival is called "Arbor Day." Then, with an eye to beautifying their grounds, the students plant trees and shrubs about the buildings. Thus, in course of time the surroundings of their study hours will be shaded with groves of trees and clumps and hedges of bushes and perennial flowering plants. Attending the ceremony and friends of the students...