Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Maiden, confidently: "I don't exactly like extemporaneous or off-hand kisses...
Shall Harvard give place to Yale in a question like this...
...young ladies appreciate their good fortune in being born in America? Do our young men appreciate their many privileges? A sojourner in your great city would like to say her little say in praise of "Young America." Who of another country than this could tell this story...
Nothing could better show that examinations are now upon us than the yard windows, late at night. Ordinarily the various dormitories stand out against the sky like great masses of gloom. relieved by only an occasional light; now the rooms whose darkened windows show that their occupants are not grinding, are the exceptions rather than the rule...
...generation ago, the ordinary college course consisted of Latin, Greek and mathematics almost exclusively, with the addition of mental and moral philosophy and logic, and possibly a course of Christian evidences. History was little taught, except indirectly, the modern languages and the physical sciences were almost ignored, while subjects like political economy, comparative politics and sociology were almost unheard of by the undergraduate. Now Harvard swings to the opposite extreme, and changes all this; not only so, but there is prospect that the future Harvard graduate will know something of the use and abuse of his mother tongue. We have...