Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...essay on "The Heroic Couplet in English Verse" is very interesting, and shows a careful study and an unusually large acquaintance with early English poetry...
...public bequests in the will of Dorothea L. Dix is the following: I give to the president and fellows of Harvard college the flags and the accompanying parchments which were given to me by the United States government, to be carefully preserved in memory of the patriotic and heroic sons of Harvard who devoted themselves to maintain the integrity of the Union and lost their lives during the war of the rebellion...
...sightedness, nor indeed do we desire to have anything to do with it. But I am convinced that not even political economy is content to accept prudence of this sort as an attribute. Again, to cap the climax, "There are no two characters more unlike than the heroic man and the prudent man." Do you hear this, students of political economy? You are not Christians. There are no germs of heroism in your souls. Do you hear this, earnest Christians? Political economy is to you a thing to be shunned; your conduct is guided by no reason...
...part of the class has been canvassed, and yet fifty-eight dollars have been collected. In our enthusiasm we wildly dream that two dollars more may be scraped together, and the magnificent total of sixty dollars reached. Ninety, we are proud of you. You are a noble example of heroic self-sacrifice and lavish generosity. You must have been saving your pennies and denying yourselves candy and chewing-gum ever since you entered college! But what would a man not sacrifice for his college! Harvard men have always been pointed out as exemplars of patriotism; but the fame of Ninety...
...contains more nutriment than five gallons of the thin and starving consomme and the ill-famed Scotch broth. Rumor has it that a new cook has been imported. Let us be thankful that he has not yet learned the methods of Memorial. Who knows but that at last an heroic soul has appeared who dares to resist the determined efforts of the management to lower the quality of the food to the second class restaurant standard? If he succeeds, he has the gratitude of several hundred patient and long-suffering undergraduates...