Word: friend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...proposed, is not original with the committee, as it is essentially the same plan as that which is at present pursued at Cambridge, England. The idea, if carried out, will obviate many difficulties at present attending our religious observances. The plan ought to meet with the approval of every friend of the university. Each pastor will come to his work full of enthusiasm and his stay with the students will be long enough to allow him to reach some definite end in his work. The result of this recurring change will undoubtedly be in the highest degree beneficial...
Spring has come. This is known to be true, because the inevitable small brother of your chum's sister's pretty friend has already begun to spring that inane and venerable question of "Why is it dangerous to walk out of doors now?" which he immediately explains as "Because the cow-slips about, and the little buds are shooting every-where." It is spring, but, in spite of the warm weather, it is also the fit time for overcoats, as the tailor says. April is a deceptive maid, and lures many an unsuspecting youth to an early grave...
...whole experiment is a novel, almost a startling one. What is to be the true result? The answer may perhaps be found in the words of a rude but hard-headed friend who said to me. "Under the present system, I shall expect a graduate of Harvard to be either a d - fool or a genius...
...domestic executive abilities. At last the old woman, nourished by the warmth of continual praise, endeavored to run both house and husband. Our German turned to her admiringly and said: 'See here, frau, I like importance, but I will be contemned if I like contemned imputance.' Our German friend used abbreviated expressions, but we can't, you know. The Crimson should know that the difference between a poet and poetaster is that the poet has the imagination, and the poetaster the sense. Further, a Western man generally has more sense than an Eastern man. A Western poetaster, thus overflowing with...
...vicious practice has crept into every branch of art. The public exercises an irresistable coercian over the artist. The true artist is kept in misery by this tyrany. He is compelled to perpetuate that peculiarity by which he was first brought into notoriety despite his tastes. Poverty is no friend to art. Hard times have exercised a profound influence on English and Continental art. All must be "pretty" and "cheerful." Riches are necessary to the artist. If he does not have them, he is crushed and forced to do inferior work. Michael Angelo, Raphael, Rubens, da Vinci, Holbein, if alive...