Word: going
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...generally admitted that all educated men, at some time in their lives, write poetry. Many acquire the habit at an early age, and go about shedding blotted scraps of paper from their pockets with an infantile-Byronic air, to the delight of their mothers and to the horror of all reasonable people; others stave off the evil hour until they fall in love, when, inspired, I suppose, by the object of their sonnets, they often astonish every one but themselves by the excellence of their verses, just as madmen have been known to develop powers of which their hours...
...class is bound to do what is just to Yale, but no more; for did they go further and yield everything that Yale impertinence demands, nothing could be more unjust, and consequently unfair, to Harvard herself, and a host of smaller colleges...
...judged from a few articles, which are all that the class have for the basis of their opinion. His unsuccessful articles are known to the editors alone; his writing may be uneven; one piece may be good and make a reputation for its author, and then half a dozen go deservedly to the waste basket. Moreover, many articles which appear have been bolstered and physicked and amputated until almost entirely changed. In this case would the class be likely to choose wisely? Concerning another danger,-the most important one,-we quote from the Era: "As for ourselves we cannot help...
...Words without thoughts never to heaven go...
Hatim Tai, the Oriental exemplar of sympathy and self-sacrifice, one day happened upon a wolf pursuing a doe, and, unwilling to allow the wolf to go hungry, though wishing to save his prey from his jaws, Hatim cut a slice from his own thigh to satisfy the appetite of the beast...