Word: life
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...chronological, beginning, for instance, in American History, with the Northman discovery, ending with the Civil War of 1861. Nearly every work of fiction of any value is included, from Optic's "Frank on the Gunboat" to Lope de Vega's "Probeza no es Vileza." The popular character, fashionable life, provincial and peasant life, so far as possible, are represented; nor are university life, law life, sporting life, sea life, reforms, prison abuses, social changes, neglected. In fact, every work of fiction possessing any value seems to have come under the author's eye, and to have been assigned its proper...
Till summer's sunshine wakes to life again...
...removal of the "North American Review" to New York entirely severs the connection of this magazine with Cambridge. When Mr. Henry Adams and Mr. Lodge retired from the editorship last year, the "Review," for the first time in its life, passed out of the hands of Harvard men. Founded in 1815 by a Harvard graduate, every one of its twelve successive editors has been a Harvard man, and nine of these editors have been or are professors in this College. Of the present Faculty, Professor Bowen, Dr. Peabody, James Russell Lowell, and Charles Eliot Norton have followed one another...
Mathematics was the bane of Sumner's college life. He did not even cut the leaves of some of his text-books in this department; and on one occasion, instead of the simple "Not prepared," he said to the instructor, "I don't know; you know I don't pretend to know anything about mathematics." The instructor turned the tables by replying, "Mathematics! don't you know the difference? This is not mathematics. This is physics...
...Athenaeum read the Freshmen a very interesting lecture; they are exhorted to do "earnest, steady, and persistent work," not only in their studies, but in ball-playing, athletics, and literature (given, we suppose, in what the editors consider their order of importance), "not to be a nontenity in college life." nor to " shut themselves up between the covers of their lexicons" (which, by the way, we should hardly have considered as one of the natural instincts of a Freshman), but generally to assert themselves, and make themselves "felt and respected in all places." What a sweet, modest little rosebud...