Word: life
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...estimate the love of literary studies there is here by the number of graduates who devote themselves to a literary life, we may reach the same conclusion as the critic; but this is hardly a fair test, since in the world at large the number of educated men engaged in purely intellectual labor is comparatively small, ardent as their love may be for Belles-Lettres...
...find fault with our surroundings being one of the easiest things in life, it is not to be wondered at that "men" in college, where "easy paths" are occasionally sought, should indulge in this amusement. Indeed, with those afflicted with a superabundance of leisure, it is not merely an amusement, but an occupation. The morning is creditably begun by swearing at the weather, prayers, and first-hour recitations; as the day advances, lunch, gymnasium, and dinner come in for a fair share of abuse; and the evening is consistently closed with a general grumble...
...good subject." "I guess I'll write on 'English and American Society.'" "What!!! Have n't you read the Advocate, on the 'limits of a college paper'? Don't you know that 'our paper should be filled exclusively with articles that have a connection with the college, - with the life here, the studies, the events of interest, that occur every day'?" "What these events of interest that happen every day may be, chum, I don't know, but I should think that article might be one, from a humorous point of view at least...
...Yale papers have assumed a very religious tone. The Record has become almost High-Church in its views of life. It has determined to mortify the flesh, during the "Lenten season," by refraining from its habitual "pastime of gentle reproof and delicate personalities." Any one who is familiar with the columns of the Record will at once appreciate the extent of its self-denial...
Another writer in the same paper takes a more cheery view of religion at Yale. He thinks there are "unusual indications" of a "revival of thoughtfulness in religious life," and calls for a revival on the Moody and Sankey plan...