Word: getting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...religious societies here has published a pamphlet, showing that, on the principles of the gyroscope, we are liable every time we dance and get to whirling fast to whop over on to our heads and spin there...
...perhaps graduates not resident, have sometimes a feeling in reference to this Library (a vague presumption of right or property in it) by which they may be led, when opportunity offers, to take away books contrary to rule and without permission; and they may afterwards return them secretly to get a discharge from conscience; or else lose them; or keep them an indefinite time, with an undefined purpose and with no lively consciousness of wrong-doing...
...upon the methods of instruction and government followed here. We may differ from those who teach us, but in every case we shall be careful not to say anything unworthy ourselves or them. Wild and general accusations, in which the plainest thing is the author's bitterness, do not get or deserve much attention. But to a carefully considered, temperate article nobody ought to object; for, though its ideas are unsound, they are less likely to be harmful if stated fully and clearly than if left to spread through the college in the disjointed form of conversation. The error will...
...College, regarded as a place of instruction and discipline, has grown and improved so much during the last twenty years that it is not unreasonable to hope that it will soon get entirely rid of a certain schoolboy spirit, which is not found in the professional schools, and which seems to have its root in the enforced attendance upon recitations, lectures, and religious exercises. This enforced attendance is characteristic of American colleges, as distinguished from European universities, and was natural enough when boys went to college at fourteen or fifteen years of age. The average age of admission to Harvard...