Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...penalties attaching to it, is almost beyond the hope of ordinary mortals. Yet, such is their case and, despite Radical grumbling, we believe it will long remain so. An absurdly futile attempt was made, somewhile ago, to ascertain whether a moderate Liberal candidate could be run at the General Election with any chance of success, but we believe that the result showed that any such attempt would be attended with nothing but a considerable loss of money, and inextinguishable laughter from the winning side...
...that ever recurring theme, "What Next?" in the following pleasing manner. "Most of us, in looking upon the future, have very ambiguous notions as regards the condition of things which we shall find in the world proper. One or two vague notions we have. We have heard in a general way rather indefinite opinions expressed. These opinions come to us largely from men of experience. The professions are over-crowded. There is plenty of room for genius, but little room for mediocre ability. The days are past when the mere fact of possessing a college education ensures a man even...
...reading-room warrants a call for a reading-room founded on some permanent foundation. This periodic life of the reading-room has neither sustained vigor nor lasting growth to recommend it. When the library is remodelled, it is the intention, we understand, to provide a place for a general newspaper reading-room within its walls. This reading-room should be maintained by a special appropriation, and the management taken from the hands of students. In this way it can be supported in manner more in keeping with Harvard's resources than the present meagre funds raised by subscription allow...
...inspiration though much of the poet's art; and we read them only to be gratified by a certain titillation of the senses rather than to have our sympathies roused at the discovery that their souls and sufferings are at all like our own. And if we investigate general tendencies instead of individual promise, we fail to find any near prospect of a return of the lost spirit of creativeness and spontaneity. In America, on the other hand, though to be sure no one singer seems ready to catch the mantle of Tennyson when it falls, yet the national character...
...essay states that a small boy who is obliged to learn the English language is subjected to "one of the most mind-stunting processes that has ever formed a part of the general education of any people." Then again it says, "the child who has difficulty in learning to spell may be expected to develop strong logical faculties...