Word: longering
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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MANY warnings have failed to convince the careless student that it is no longer safe to live aperlo domo. Three years ago the burglaries were indeed few in number, but, like the murders which De Quincey has celebrated, of so artistic a character that they could not fail to command the respect of all true lovers of the aesthetic. Windows furnished the favorite mode of entrance and exit, daylight or darkness suited the interlopers, and, in one instance at least, a hand-to-hand fight settled the ownership of valuable articles of clothing. The next year we dwelt in greater...
...feel called upon to warn our fellow-students that it will soon be necessary to bid farewell to a College officer. The watchman is about to leave us. The Faculty feel that he has done well, that he has done more than well, but a watchman is no longer needed at their weekly meetings, and he must go. Not the man, but the office, is the object of their disapproval; the watchman goes forth, we assure our readers, with reputation as unspotted as when he came. We attempt no eulogy of his character; all who remember the active part...
...growth and greatness of the Museum of Comparative Zoology must be a source of gratification to all lovers of Natural History. Students intending to devote the greater part of their lives to this branch of knowledge need no longer go to Europe with the expectation of finding better facilities to aid them in their investigations. In the course of his remarks last week to those who had elected studies at the Museum, Professor Agassiz said that twenty-six years ago there was not a single specimen, with which to illustrate a lecture, possessed by the Institution, which now offers better...
...innocence? Some one else declares that "the exercise of common-sense but for a minute" reduces the difference between Romanists and Protestants to a mere doubt respecting the profitableness of invoking the Virgin. The writer would surely have said otherwise had he exercised his own common-sense a minute longer. If not, his instructors could have corrected him. These expressions, in a magazine containing much commendable matter, are all that challenge our critical attention. May the Owl accept it kindly...
Loose thinking upon many subjects is one of the earliest symptoms of Sir Galahad's fall. So many of his boyish beliefs in things both natural and spiritual have to be abandoned as no longer tenable in the clear light of reason, that our knight gets very dainty about defending anything old at all. The argument of a laugh is not easily answerable in college society. It is, moreover, easier to profess pity for blind bigotry than to reason honestly. And students are proverbially lazy...