Word: finds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...make fewer metrical mistakes than their more sensible and prosaic compeers. From their number, too, it is not unlikely that those very few will come who will be poets outside of college as well as in it. For in a very young poet it is natural to find the imagination running away with the common sense, rather than a severe taste employing imagination as a tractable servant. There are many other schools, - that of the fireside dreamers, the easy rhymsters (who are closely connected with the babblers), and others, - but there is not room to speak of them...
...Given up my cold bath, as I find I can't get to Prayers if I take it. Lost six pounds in weight...
...been distinguished for its dignified silence. When the ancients conferred upon it the proud title of the "Bird of Wisdom," they knew well what were the outward characteristics of wisdom. "Familiarity breeds contempt," says the old proverb, and the man who makes himself common by overmuch speaking will find an unpleasant confirmation of its truth...
...find joy in drinking...
...Western mixed colleges are said to have, like boarding-schools, very strict rules with regard to the conduct of their students. The existence of these rules proves that they are needed. We know that boys and girls find ways of circumventing their teachers; does any one suppose that young men and women do not? To us it seems that, if women come to Harvard, the true policy of the College will be teaching, pure and simple, without any laws to control the students outside the class-room. Then it will be expedient that the dormitory system shall be entirely abolished...