Word: going
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...your cravat, and the smoothness of your hair. And even in this they do not seem to be consistent, often applying the test in an exactly opposite manner to different persons. But however that may be, believe me, there is not one of your pet oddities that does not go a great way in the estimate that some one forms of your character. I have here an excellent opportunity for boring my reader with a disquisition on prejudices, and for giving him several awful warnings on the sin of hating a man because he wears a peculiar-shaped hat. Alas...
...fault may lie in my own stupidity; for I confess that even yet I cannot see the connection between politics and chimney-pots, or between personal allusions to the character of prominent politicians and good taste in architecture. When I go voluntarily into a political meeting, knowing that I am to hear a speaker who holds views opposed to my own, I am bound to sit still and listen courteously to whatever he may have to say, and it is my own fault if I hear anything I don't like, But when I go to a lecture on Fine...
...that this was the last time his class would ever meet together, he thanked the President and Superintendents for their leniency, and expressed his gratitude to the people of Orono for what they had done. He confessed that when he came to college he had no inclination to go into society, he was awkward in entering a room. "But you have thrown open to us your parlors," he continued, "and have enabled us to acquire ease of manner and grace as well as dignity of bearing...
...NEVER see a proctor go by without feeling like praying for him. To think of the depth to which some of my fellow-creatures have sunk! To think that whole, able-bodied men, some of them peradventure endowed with reason, can thus grovel in the dust, and deceive themselves in the thought that they are pursuing their duty! O Popoi! how sad! how sad! Earth does not contain a more pitiful spectacle. And I wonder if any cruel Nemesis will reduce me to such a lot, and at once a cold chill pierces my marrow, my hands involuntarily seek...
...World's reports of college doings grow better and better as the weeks go by. The one who has charge of that department seems to understand what he is talking about; the arrangement is always good, and the facts are never twisted. The same may be said, negatively, of the Transcript's reports...