Word: forbearance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : The ins and outs of college life, portrayed so minutely in the HERALD, recall to my mind so vividly the year I spent at Harvard that I cannot forbear contrasting it with university life at Paris. It is but human nature that every mortal should complain of his lot - be it what it may. Thus it is, after the novelty of Harvard life has worn off and we become so accustomed to it that it seems an old story, that we begin to pick out this or that insignificant trifle about which to grumble and make ourselves...
...reading matter is contributed by a number of well known favorites. Among others we notice the names of Wheelwright, J. C. Goodwin, Alden of the Times, and Arthur Penn. We cannot forbear clipping from the "Macaulay-flower Papers...
...inauguration of President Kirkland is described on page 239. I select a sentence or two for quotation: "The friends of classical literature were highly gratified that His Excellency the Governour for his inductive address made an election of the Latin language. We cannot forbear thanking him [Dr. Thacher] for his well-timed defence of the character of his college, against the barefaced charges and insinuated imputations, which disappointed rivalry may well account for, but which nothing can palliate, and for which profound penitence only can atone . . A Latin and Greek ode in the Commons-Hall gave a classical...
...view of the uncomplimentary epithets (which we do not care to repeat) that have been freely used by the Record and the Courant, we do not think that complaints, least of all violent denunciations, come from them with very good grace. In connection with this subject, we cannot forbear mentioning a pleasant private note which we have received from "Smintheus," which we are not at liberty to print, - a note which proclaims him as much a gentleman as the efforts of his defamers proclaim them the opposite. The author of "Heliotrope" and "A Hopeless Case," to say nothing...
...indeed for the necessity which compelled me, for I had found Alfred a very companionable man, entirely frank and unaffected. Those people who think he is a proud and reserved man - a man of few words - labor under a profound mistake: he can be eloquent upon occasion. I cannot forbear relating the delicate compliment he paid me at parting: he said, and I think he meant it, that he hoped I had enjoyed my visit as much...