Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This contribution, by far the ablest in the number, is well worth more than one perusal...
...simplicity, and their genuineness more than atones for any lack of polish. Mr. F. S. Palmer's verses in his Ode to Herrick, are more musical and better tuned. They cannot fail to stir a genuine lover of Herrick. Mr. A. B. Houghton's Ballad of Pleasure Seekers, though far above the average of college verse, is not, we think, quite up to the standard of his former work, in spite of a number of lines more than ordinarily good. It is likely that many will object to the gloomy sentiment of this poem. Yet if an optimist will kindly...
...This is the growth of but 40 years. What will it be in 60 years? The laws of aggregation and consolidation are just beginning to reach their results; trained, educated men are wanted as heads of corporations. Within five years, after a man enters railroading, he will be as far advanced as though he had entered a learned profession, provided he is equally devoted, industrious, abstinent and tenacious. Of the five departments, all of which lead to the top, the construction department gives a man an out-door life, the legal, on the whole is, perhaps, most congenial...
Lowest on the scale are books full of copied notes, written up hurriedly from the books of a large circle of friends. They are insignificant, and uncharacteristic except in so far as they show the slinking habits of the owner. Next comes the note-book in flexible covers, bearing generally some such printed legend as the "Students Own Blank Book." These are used by men who take few and careless notes, and after a few days they get the air of a grocery order book. Above these rank the larger stiff covered note-books of all shapes and sizes...
While the northern soldier was aided in material things he was also supported by the thought that his family was far away from harm, sure of aid in case of his death, while the Confederate was battling almost on his own hearth, his family and loved ones daily exposed to the shock of battle and defenceless at his death. The southerner, too, was not fighting for a government, but for his property, slaves and traditional honor...