Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...journal" a Mr. Digby who asks questions of instructors to give the impression that he is much interested in what he is studying, is there no one to be found elsewhere who really has the interest which the distinguished artist assumes? Are there not many men, on the other hand, who, not having any particular interest in what they are doing, nevertheless make no pretence to seem interested? There are, I think, three classes of students, - those who have a real interest in their work, those who have no interest and never make believe that they have, and finally...
...Harvard, and the purpose which it served, are alike unknown. One of the chief peculiarities of Harvard is, that it seems to have had absolutely no connection either with the nation or with its immediate neighborhood. Containing within itself a government and a classified society, it had no hand in the management of the affairs of the nation; it had no connection with the Church; it concerned itself neither with commerce, with manufacturing, nor with agriculture. All that is known about it is the form of its government, the divisions of its inhabitants, some scattered facts about its customs...
...existence. The government passed a law that all the men should get up at twenty minutes past four A. M., and assemble at the "Chapel"; there every man was required, under penalty of twenty-four marks, (was the whipping-post still in use?) within fifteen minutes, to write and hand in "a theme and forensic." We are ignorant of the reasons for this most extraordinary enactment; it looks like wanton oppression. Neither are we informed as to the nature of the "theme and forensic...
...their prattle than an elephant thinks of the buzz of a fly, which may soar in the air above him, but which in that very flight goes beyond the range of ordinary eyesight, and which can never hope to attract attention while its mighty fellow-creature is at hand...
There is more reason for retaining the Freshman race. It serves as a school for future University men, and creates usually a healthy interest in boating among the Freshmen. But, on the other hand, it is doubtful whether class races and class crews are not incongruous with the present boating-system at Harvard, and whether the same material for University oars could not be worked up by club races, while the money necessary for the support of the Freshman crew could be given to the 'Varsity...