Word: felt
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that no such interest is felt would be bold and probably false; to say that none is shown is not too much...
...said at them, fills sheet after sheet with "notes," and at last, with a sigh of relief, throws down his book without having caught one glimmer of that light which, for those who see it, shines as brightly now as it did when the most ignorant man in Athens felt the roll of the thunder in AEschylus' words, and was the wiser and the better for it. Such an unfortunate result cannot always be prevented by the best instructor, but in most instances it can be, and in most instances with us it is not. This is a broad assertion...
...people they illustrate. As students, the greater part of us are too indifferent to study a history in connection with our reading, but would willingly listen to a course of lectures involving no further effort on our part than an occasional note. This is a want really felt, and we hope it soon will be supplied...
...when the freshness and vigor of youth are at a premium in some of the professions, and at a discount in none. But if one is in debt, he should keep school, or engage in some remunerative employment long enough to free himself of pecuniary encumbrance, which is always felt as a heavy burden in the entrance upon a professional career...
...Calvin, discussing with Darwin, a town - a modern, busy, trading, prosaic, mushroom, damnable town - has been started, is growing beneath our very nose! We believe they have a "City Hall" and a "Government," - we are not sure that the College, whose refining, softening, broadening influence has so long been felt throughout the whole country, is not partly in the power of a collection of dram-drinking politicians! Cambridgeport, indeed! What would it be without Harvard? A collection of slaughter-houses, - a pig-killing village. Whoever heard of Cambridge but as the seat of Harvard University, from which...