Word: justness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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But now just as surpassed in springing up,
But such men are few. Most of us are not particularly earnest, even in the pursuit of pleasure. By the aid of an "advanced civilization," the "culture of the nineteenth century," etc., we have, curiously enough, just reached that position of dignified indifference which the American Indian long ago attained...
But what we need at Harvard is a deeper appreciation of the fact that college is but a preparatory school, after all; that before very long we shall be placed in a position where earnestness is almost indispensable to success, and indifference a thing to be fought against, instead of...
Smith, '74, came into our sanctum just as we went to press. He has gained seventy-five pounds since Class Day.
He talked proudly of the Harvard Washington Corps and the Navy, whose flags are long since food for moths, and whose very names are meaningless to us. For aught I know, he might have been an officer in one of these, and led his troop down from their armory in...