Word: goods
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...course, in studying books of our own or even of the Library, it does little harm, and sometimes much good, to call attention to the important passages by a pencil-mark. But in works of fiction many dash their pencils recklessly along a paragraph that strikes their fancy at the moment. This is almost always done when alone in a sort of friendly social feeling toward the next reader, and because there is no one present to share the reader's delight! Did you ever see a man mark a book? No, because if any one is present, the passage...
...have a marked book before me, and the passages clearly indicate that "the good work was done by different hands, each striving to complete the work of his predecessor and to prevent his successor's receiving mistaken ideas of his capacity, - just as if one ever knew who marked a book. Here are a few of the selected bits marked in the book before...
...Bessie, for a woman who crimps her hair and looks awfully superficial, you can occasionally evince an uncommon amount of practical wisdom." There 's the Senior, experienced in the real value of the fair sex, and determined every one shall know that he, too, sees the good so often hidden from the world by the crimps...
...forbidding the circulation of such books is evident. But the source of complaint lies not in these, but in certain books of questionable character which the Library council prudishly, it is said, keep under lock and key, thus depriving us of man's peculiar distinction, - the knowledge of good and evil. Some books may have been put under restriction rather hastily. Walt Whitman was in disgrace, though, to our minds, reading his verses, if a crime, is in itself sufficient penance; and Swinburne was forbidden, while Byron was not. But the list of restricted books has been carefully revised...
...under the charge of the Finance Club, an announcement of which will be found in another column. It certainly shows a commendable amount of enterprise and activity on the part of such a young society to have made arrangements already for giving three lectures, and to have secured such good lecturers. Mr. Edward Atkinson is a practical business man of large experience, and has collected much interesting information upon the subject which he has chosen. The names of Professors Sumner and Walker are familiar to everybody, and the positions which they hold at Yale will doubtless secure them a warm...