Word: highly
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...High o'er thy busy brethren's duller clang...
...perfection of our human nature on all its sides, in all its capacities; that it presses ever onwards to an ampler growth, to a gradual harmonious expansion of those gifts of thought and feeling which make the peculiar dignity, wealth, and happiness of human nature. Surely a high purpose, but one not incapable of being but partly understood or not understood at all; and thus culture comes to seem to many people the ability to talk on any subject readily and fluently enough for five minutes or perhaps a quarter of an hour, to know a little music, a little...
...influence of the College will be best ascertained if we look at the religious life of the students. This, among those who make any claims to being religious men, is of as high a character as at other colleges. Certainly, men do not pretend to religion from selfish motives, nor is their piety a hot-house growth. They profess religion because they believe it, and stand by it all the better for the lack of a forcing temperature. The College is a little world by itself, and the bad influences of a world are here, and the good also...
...studies. Persons rarely indulge in criticism unless their taste and good judgment are offended; nor do students care a straw how recitations are conducted when they have nothing at stake. True, in many cases grumbling is heard because the standard of scholarship is kept as high as it is, but those who indulge in this are not the ones to write essays for a college paper on the ill-management of the college...
Perhaps, however, the story is chiefly valuable for affording us glimpses into Yale student life on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. From casual remarks, we gather that whist is a game which is not enjoyed there. Pillow fights are preferred. But even these grow monotonous to the high-spirited Freshmen, and on the afternoon from which the tale dates, we learn that, having stationed watchmen throughout the entries of their building, some Freshmen were indulging in a quadrille. Such an innocent sport is not allowed, however, by the Yale Faculty. It tends directly to worse vices. A step is heard...