Word: harbors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Athens to study Greek? Is not American Greek good enough for Americans? The American system produces Hellenists like the Yale professors of Greek, who, going down to the Peiraens one day to make a bargain with a native waterman for a sail-boat to take him across the harbor, astonished the man by asking him for a 'transport-boat,' - something that would carry half a dozen regiments of horse. But the Yale professor was any man's equal in the fine-print rules and multifarous exceptions of the grammar. Go to Chicago, not to Athens, for your professors of Greek...
...often heard him mentioned, and I knew that he was expected to visit Centre Harbor sometime before the end of the summer; therefore I was not greatly surprised at the news...
...Harvard man does not conform to any fixed pattern in thought, word, or action. He has none of the bubbling effervescence springing from the rock of faith in self and college that characterizes those who have dwelt within the sacred precincts of Novel Harbor. Nor has he any of that immature maturity, that attempted sophistication, which marks the sons of freedom's namesake. He has none of that tendency to regard the earth as one huge football, which is the mote that dims the eyes of the Jersey princes. But it avails little to say what...
...burnished waters in the sun, the tufted crags and narrowing inlets, the long stretches of forest, and finally, like a sheltering rim, the purple hills. Yes, this was decidedly pleasant - to me especially - who was the young man in question, for it was in the charming village of Centre Harbor that I found myself during the vacation which followed my Junior year...
...race. The most that can be said in support of this claim is that it is a courtesy that has been extended to the challenged party. If this is an exclusive right of the challenged party, literally interpreted, Yale might compel Harvard to row in New Haven harbor this year. Harvard would be no less handicapped in rowing in New Haven harbor with good quarters than in rowing at New London with her old quarters...