Word: furnishings
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...receipt of the Forest and Stream, a weekly paper under the charge of Charles Hallock, author of the Fishing Tourist. Its columns, as its name indicates, are devoted largely to the sports of the forest and stream, and in this line furnish the best reading possible. General sporting intelligence, however, also finds a place, and in a much more attractive and refined form than in any other American publication...
...undergraduates before it can get into the college papers; and thus "Locals" and "Brevities" are generally only a convenient method of preserving in print for future reference facts of interest. Of what is going on at other colleges most of us are in the dark. Our exchanges furnish us with an occasional ray of light on the subject, but these are not seen by the college reading world until a long time after the news has grown literally old. The proposed system of correspondence, if perfected, will give us full and reliable accounts of anything of interest in our sister...
...what, then, should consist the training for public life, which our universities do not now furnish, but which would aid young men, animated by an ardent wish, to have an honorable part in the determination of great questions of law, government, and social science, and not incapacitated by an inordinate longing for place? "The preparation for action which I should desire would have in view chiefly two fields of usefulness to the nation. . . . . One of these is in the direction of the periodical press; the other is that of public speaking with effect...
...naturally so, because the metre is less removed from prose than any other, and you can get in a good many words in each line before you have to make a rhyme. The writers who make the most use of this metre are usually those who furnish the most examples of good writing in verse, but without any of the other and more important characteristics of poetry. They are generally humorous or witty poets; for the long lines afford excellent opportunities for climax, and for that kind of wit which is dependent upon the use of big and high-sounding...
...thinkers would, no long time ago, have been impossible; but now Mr. Ruskin finds a correspondent among the "working" cork-cutters of Sunderland, and mechanics and laborers, to the horror of some very respectable people of monarchical tendencies, are fast equipping themselves with all the weapons that education can furnish...