Word: like
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...cause, which makes the glory of fighting; Southerners, they held, would feel no mortification from the erection of the hall, for they would appreciate that those in whose memory it was built, though they fought against the South, did so from principle; the Southerners too, being actuated by a like principle, would deserve and receive like praise; it was not principle, but the mere circumstance of living in Massachusetts or South Carolina (say), which decided whether a soldier should wear the blue or the gray...
...imagine to be largely owing to the time at which it was made. As the Nation said, it is to a great degree a question of feeling, and we must remember feeling has changed since then. We have gone along with marvellous strides in the last two years. Celebrations like that on the 17th of last June, and speeches like those of General Sherman and Fitzhugh Lee, have materially altered our feelings towards the South. The Nation's language was, therefore, the language of 1874, prompted by feeling rather than by reason, as it confesses. Now, in 1876, feeling...
...education is only to be obtained by co-operation; instructor and student must work together. An education that is to permeate the whole mind cannot be rubbed in, but must be drawn in by the students from outside and at the same time drawn out from himself. The mind, like a meerschaum, is best colored from within. Only by a supply of good material from outside, and a gentle heat of zeal inside, is set free the subtle essence that imbues the mind with knowledge, at last to ripen into wisdom. Since in this case instructor and pupil are mutual...
...Like ocean gay and free...
...hands of the so-called "Goodies." A few years ago the rooms were far more simply furnished; but now a man's room is not a bad exponent of his character and circumstances, and with better accommodations college rooms have grown to be more inhabitable and more home-like. It seems a shame, when students put valuable engravings, books, or what not in their rooms, that these should suffer, from carelessness or absolute ignorance, almost certain injury if not ruin. The service is no better than that in a second-class hotel, and traditional negligence is exemplified in the daily...