Word: going
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...know about any immediate ancestors; but everybody knows that the O'Donohues go back to one of the Kings of Ireland. For further details see any History of Ireland...
...early showed a great taste for the literature of the past, and longed to fit for college. Neither my father nor Father Reilly wished me to go to the Public Schools, on account of the low standard of social position. I studied by myself. By blacking boots, I earned enough to buy Bohn's translation of the Iliad, and was entranced with the beauty of that noble poem. I entered in 1876, and since then I have done nothing but study. I have left college only once, and that was on St. Patrick's Day, when my father's society...
...Critic. "Bold knight of the quill," said he, "take my advice: make your paper caustic and spicy; make fun of the literary men, the athletes, the bummers, the professors, and the college papers. Make fun of college life. Sneer at it, my boy, and your paper will go. Here is a light article on 'Lies in Literary Life, or a Factitious Faculty,' and a few good things for the Brevity Column...
...although other organizations seem to find no difficulty in doing so, we would suggest that lectures such as have been given this year would do much more good if printed in pamphlet form and distributed, than they do by being delivered. One word more. People are not likely to go to hear a lecture on such a subject as "Ideality in Science," for we do not believe there are ten persons in Cambridge who have any idea what on earth this means; and people certainly will not go to hear a lecture unless they know that...
...college course, and the action of the authorities in offering us such advantages is thoroughly appreciated. We wish, however, that our own professors would do something in this way for us, as well as for other colleges and for the public. Many students who cannot spare time to go into Boston would gladly attend lectures if given here, and we hope that Professor Fiske will be able to repeat in Cambridge the course of lectures which have already proved so interesting to audiences elsewhere...