Word: lets
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...influence exerted upon society by the silent man is irresistible; his very silence is a proof of wisdom. But let him break through his reserve, and his doom is sealed; henceforth he has lost his dignified-exaltation, and become one of the mobile vulgus. There is deeply implanted in the human heart a feeling that to speak, to write, is a sign of weakness, of lack of self-reliance. It shows that one's own approbation is not sufficient unless that of others be superadded. And there is a dim belief that the speaker, as Socrates says, is moved...
...fighting world. He was bound hand and foot, so that it was impossible for him to defend himself. Not a muscle moved; he preserved a stolid indifference as our lecturer squared off in front of him, and (in the language of the "Clipper" reporter, who sat next me) "let out his bunch of fives, caught him on the nob, and drew the claret profusely." "See," cried the Professor, "It is impossible for him to resist that attack!" It was, indeed. These exhibitions of brutality were made two or three times every lecture, until Professor Reid's features were wholly undistinguishable...
...College is merged into the University," etc., expresses serious objections to class feeling because the outside world, "hard, cold, and avaricious, recognizes no such sentimentalities." What then? Must we make our little college world "hard, cold, and avaricious," too? If such is the character of the big world, let us have the two realms as different as possible. It is very well to sneer at the "romance" and "sentiment" of class feeling, but, there is very little danger of a Harvard boy's mind being filled with too much of these notions, which, after...
Perhaps I would be a physician. Then let me devote the best years of my life to the Classics. It is far more important that I should know the derivation of the names of my medicines than their chemical composition; the terms of anatomy than the science itself. It is better to know that AEsculapius raised the dead, than to understand the art of keeping men alive...
...interesting transmittendum. On the panels of the closet doors some fine paintings were executed by a member of the class of '54. These doors were about to be removed, and the occupant roundly fined, when the President of the College fortunately happened in and ordered the carpenters to let them remain; they have not yet been taken away, and probably will not so long as the room is used for its present purpose...