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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...maiden. Her thoughts, indeed, were running upon pickpockets; and the probability that even she might be robbed of her small sum and the locket that contained the picture of her lover led her to thrust her hand hastily into her pocket to secure her purse. Horror! she finds a hand already there. Surely it is the hand of a thief. Grasping it bravely and holding it fast, she looked up for the owner, and was surprised to find that the villain had such a gentlemanly face. He even smiled sweetly upon her as she caught his eye. This was impertinence...
...Shall find an echo in my soul...
...nauseam. Those fond of this rather material transport will find plenty to satisfy them...
...position in a reformatory institution is well calculated to look after the interests and comfort of gentlemen remains to be seen. If it was this zeal for our interests which induced the Bursar to select such an individual for one of his appointments, he will doubtless be able to find many ex-officials of lunatic asylums, state prisons, etc., who will be glad of so easy and lucrative a position. This sort of parental restriction which the Bursar has imposed upon us, in dictating whom we are to employ, is foreign to the whole spirit of the College...
...much more practical purpose of training ministers, and most of them ministers for particular denominations. . . . We are sure President Eliot did not intend to be vague or ambiguous when he used the phrase 'theological teaching of a perfectly unsectarian character.' But we are also sure that he would find it difficult now to tell us what such teaching is. We may, therefore, safely set down the Harvard Divinity School as necessarily denominational in its practical workings, whatever character its managers may seek to give it, or may have originally claimed...