Word: highway
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most importance to the college is the elaborate editorial filling several pages near the end of the number. Its aim is to stimulate men to become more than mere plodders or idlers along the intellectual highway; to show the vast superiority of those students who. putting aside the petty spirit which drives men to work for marks or examinations alone, adopt instead an ultimate idea of true and broad culture. An abuse too prevalent at Harvard-the nursing system of private tutors-is treated with the open and unqualified contempt it deserves. If the Monthly continues thus ably to discuss...
...cares to do so can spend an hour at the club house with the hope of meeting the men whom he meets every day in the yard, and with the same probability of a more intimate acquaintance, the club will prove but little else than a covered highway, offering the same opportunities and no more than the corridor of many of the city hotels. This plan it is said will obviate the present tendency to the formation of cliques. This is far from assured. These so-called cliques are no more or less groups of men formed by commonality...
...case of their refusal. It may occur to many of our modern student readers to wonder how such conduct could be reconciled with the principles which even in those darkened days must have been present with the perpetrators, and where the boundary-line ran between it and the highway assault and robbery. Such, however, was the false reasoning of drink-loving students that they argued: "What I now plunder from you, you may in turn plunder from those who will soon be in your position, and may sanction go with...
...else has given us these transverse sections of the world, where we see the prince and the beggar side by side, each thinking his own thoughts and speaking his own language; where we see the various intrigues and passions jostling one another as they hurry along the highway of life...
...daring case of highway robbery occurred at Milton yesterday...