Word: low
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Here and yonder, high and low...
...read so few books, it ought rather to be a source of pleasure to think that we read so many; for the carefully compiled estimate, which announces that each student on the average draws fifteen books in a term year,-almost two each month,-is rather high than low, for, if the contents of each book are impressed on the mind so vividly that they immediately present themselves when wanted, this is surely the nucleus of an ever-increasing stock of valuable knowledge,-a requisite to all of any real literary attainments...
...leaving a last record for the outer world before opening that mysterious plate-glass door on which I deciphered the words "Ring the Bell and Walk in"? I began to feel slightly nervous, and to repent my rashness in coming alone. The first apartment I entered was long and low, and quite dark. It seemed very much like a jail. Three or four small beds were ranged along the wall, on which reclined or squatted several individuals simply attired in a short strip of linen cloth. Opposite the entrance hung a large picture of what I at first thought...
...thankful to the editors for their charity towards us, we must deprecate that spirit which leads to a seeming insinuation that the reason for our severe criticism was inflated conceit and sectional exclusiveness. Although we insist upon our former statement that the tone of journalism among Western Colleges is low, we admit that there are brilliant exceptions; we admit, too, that many of our Eastern Colleges publish what is decidedly inferior in quality. It is by criticism alone that what is of such a kind can be cast aside. And when we have criticised, our duty is done...
...Bends low and softly kisses earth good night...