Word: likenesses
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Like the bulbs that turn up in the wildwood...
...exercise, too, of swinging the Indian clubs would be more tempting to the embryo Hercules if there were space for him to indulge in it without being in imminent danger either of splitting open the head of a bystander as the ponderous club swiftly descends, or of meeting a like fate at the hands of another. Room, then, and the consequent increase in the variety of apparatus, is what is needed...
...hope. We have before us the prospectus of a college that has but five regular professors, and yet the curriculum is substantially that of Yale, besides the offer of a special course for post-graduates." Our limited space prevents our copying half so much as we should like, but we cannot help quoting two of the things which, according to the author, a catalogue should be expected not to do. "It should not neglect to distinguish between resident and non-resident professors, and between professors and mere lecturers. A college may engage a lecturer, residing at a distance, to give...
...colors of the kaleidoscope or to note the webbings in a piece of lace. There is a transparency about some of his ill-concealed motives, which makes his success the more wonderful; for people do not always attain their ends when they are seen through, nor do their friends like to admit that dust has been adroitly thrown into their eyes without their perceiving the cloud containing the tiny atoms which for a time obscured their vision...
...would be more entitled to the privilege and honor. There is far too much of this politic seeking for popularity in college; the methods are many, and the results various. Popularity which is sought after and courted is a dangerous thing, and though it may bewilder for the moment, like the ignis fatui, it leads on in a sort of shadow dance without any culminating force. Your popular, because politic, man in college seldom becomes the really popular and praiseworthy citizen, the beloved minister, the trusted and honest lawyer, or the most relied-upon physician. Nor is he always...