Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Many of the older graduates feel, perhaps, that they have spent enough on boating, for previous to 1866 the crews were obliged to pay their own expenses, the College only furnishing the boat, if my memory does not fail me. One crew, wishing to experiment, bought their boat without any assistance from the University. Two or even three boats are doubtless necessary (though rarely the latter number), but permit me to say, with all due respect, that the imprudence that orders "five new boats" should pay for the same...
...those having the form and appearance of men. This is a comparatively small class, and I liken them unto the grains of wheat that fell upon stony ground, for they would seem to be capable of bringing forth fruit if they were only in their right position. We really feel for them and pity them...
When undergraduates remind us of "the generally acknowledged value of mathematics in mental discipline," we are inclined to quote Macaulay: "'Discipline' of the mind! Say, rather, starvation, confinement, torture, annihilation! I feel myself becoming a personification of algebra, a living trigonometrical canon, a walking table of logarithms. All my perceptions of elegance and beauty gone, or at least going. At the end of the term my brain will be 'as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage.'" Many, I fancy, can sympathize with him when he says he got "a headache daily, without acquiring one practical truth or beautiful...
FROM the enthusiasm manifested at the meeting of the Art Club on last Thursday week we feel confident that the Club is now based upon a footing to insure it a more lasting and creditable existence than it has yet enjoyed. All expressed delight with the rich collection of works on art placed at the disposal of the Club by the generosity of Professor Norton and one or two other gentlemen...
Bend nearer now, and dost thou feel...