Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Freshman Nine promises to be an exceedingly good one this year...
...effect similar to that produced by a joke when told in ten times as many words as are necessary, and the fair maiden must have felt that all this flowery "gush" was far inferior to the "dumb eloquence" that accompanied it. But the modern hero has the good taste to perceive that a display of rhetoric is not fitted to the moment, and that brevity must be the soul of his argument. It is on this one string that the novel-writers of to-day play their simple and natural airs, - and it is wonderful what a variety it furnishes...
...earthly paragon," and no angel. If the scene is to be laid on this earth, then even the heroine ought to be endowed with a few of our imperfections, for through them her character appeals most strongly to the reader. If he has not her good qualities, he at least wants to sympathize with her shortcomings. In novel-reading our pleasure is confined wholly to the finite. If any future author shall be pleased to lay the scene of his story in Jupiter or Neptune, we shall not experience, but until that time we wish to see ourselves mirrored...
...excellent concert in Lyceum Hall last Tuesday evening. The selections were, as a rule, played with rare fidelity and - spirit, and when we compare the poor success of last year with the triumph of this, we feel that too much praise cannot be given to the patience, skill, and good taste of Mr. Deane, the leader. The absence of the Glee Club was severely felt, though the orchestral parts of the programme were agreeably supplemented by the duet and solos of Messrs. Babcock and Morse...
...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...