Word: good
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...present at the tree? Yes, I rather enjoyed sitting on the grass and looking up at the windows. Very pretty were the bits of color, - crimson, white, and blue, - that relieved the dull, grim red of the old buildings. But the exercises seemed a good deal of a farce to me. I fell down, and was stepped on, and the ladies laughed, - so I was glad to get out again...
...There, that will do," said I. "One man like you is enough to cast a gloom over the happiest occasion." And as I bade him good night I advised him not to trouble any Seniors with his melancholy thoughts...
...fact that the tickets to Memorial Hall, which were to be good for both afternoon and evening, had to be given up on entering, and could not be returned to all on coming out, caused inconvenience to a considerable number. It seems that not a few managed to gain entrance to the Hall in the afternoon without tickets, and hence the tickets gave out when being returned. The fault seems to rest upon the doorkeeper and the depravity of mankind...
Again, don't combine with all that lavishness of expenditure on dress and amusements which you are already acquiring an '82-like stinginess in giving money to the good of your class, or an '80-like indifference to all class organizations...
...doctors have been bred in contact with disease, and have no true sympathy for health, and they are usually cramped by the tenets of their own school of therapeutic surmises. Nor is it enough to put over the Gymnasium a man who knows nothing of anatomy and physiology, however good a general gymnast he may be. Such a man may be best fitted to teach how to execute a certain exercise, but never to prescribe what exercise each man needs. A simple teacher of gymnastics without the light of anatomical knowledge to judge of each student's condition and powers...