Word: forsooth
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...polish the cogs of their mental machinery ! And when, for a good decade of human life, and those its most invaluable years, a boy has stumbled on this dreadful mill-round, without progressing a single step, and is plucked at his matriculation for Latin prose, we flatter ourselves, forsooth, that we have been giving him the best means for learning Latin quotations, for improving taste (or what passes for such) for acquiring the niceties of Greek and Latin scholarship ! We resent the nickname of the 'Chinese of Europe,' yet our education offers the closest possible analogue to that which reigus...
...duties of their positions, keep out of politics and keep up and maintain the high standard of the college, instead of degrading it with party politics." The attempt "to exert a controlling influence in politics" is, according to this correspondent, a highly reprehensible offence in a college man. "Politics," forsooth, belong entirely with the man of affairs, the "politician," and the man who is not biased in his opinions by the unfortunate disadvantage of a college education. A fallacy truly illustrative of the popular prejudice against the interference of men of letters and education in public affairs! It is manifestly...
...shaketh in its boots, and feareth that day when the Charles R. R. R. shall blossom forth in all its wealth of accommodations. The student in the early morn cometh from his prayer meeting in the metropolis and chattereth his teeth and shivereth in the refrigerator car. The company forsooth appreciateth the freshness of his victim and desireth that it shall not spoil...
...changes too numerous to mention? Simply, nothing. And why, Mr. HERALD, why is this? The answer, sir, is Harvard "indifference." Indifference to reform, indifference to their own interests, indifference to disinterested efforts on their behalf; and fear of publicity, fear of the enthusiasm of indignation, fear of "bad form," forsooth. What is left for me henceforth? Obscurity only. After my services of so many centuries "for the public good," to be thus silently contemned is too much. To be called "grumbler," "fault-finder," and a "thing," is more than even the flesh and blood of so antiquated a creature...
...Because, forsooth, you chose it should remain...