Word: lies
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...girl." "Adams called on Miss Harbrook Tuesday evening and was late in getting home." "Bronson spent last Sunday in Marshville. Bronson is spending too many Sundays in Marshville." "Hunter has a girl," etc., etc. All these items are refreshing. We read them, throw aside the western journals, lie back in our armchairs and think until we fall asleep. Then we dream...
Nothing is more essential to success in either business or professional life than energy and tenacity of purpose; and success in college life depends mainly on the same thing. The student who comes to college determined to make the most of his opportunities, to let none of his powers lie idle, and to cultivate both mind and body to the greatest possible extent, succeeds in his work if he keeps his purpose clearly in view; and is very likely to fail if he does not. Men of natural ability often come to surpass their more talented class-mates because they...
...bald-headed grind, and the grindstone. It is rumored in Chicago that the recent explosion in C - e H - e unearthed two new species, the "hard grind" and the "regular grind." Someone who reads this may call this a "grind," but it is not, it is not even a lie. The elder Pliny was a grind, and Vitellius Spiculus was a grind. But they had brains and it paid them to grind. It is even said that the elder Pliny wore glasses. There is an old legend which is to-day told in one of the Swiss villages among...
...once hearing that there are grinds at New Haven who are regularly summoned to the Yale "U. 5" for taking too many courses, and for being too ardent at their devotions in chapel. But as I have never been able to substantiate this, I fear that it is a lie. To return to archetypes, Cicero and Virgil were not grinds, but Epictetus was a grind. The lamp in which Epictetus burned his midnight oil is even now on exhibition in the British Museum along side of the Elgin Marbles. It is as large as a barrel...
...that the present system of prayers inspires us with "opposition and dislike," and that our feelings "find vent in ridicule." But this aggressive "alumnus," as he calls himself, does not hold to the "mediocritas aurea" which he urges upon others, but adds that we not only dislike prayers, but "lie to get rid of them." We are glad that our internal condition has been so vividly portrayed to the public, and trust that the writer who has so kindly interested himself in the matter knew at least what he was writing; if he did not know that there...