Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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From these considerations it would seem that Harvard herself hardly knows what she is. While the mark for a degree is low enough to allow all who so desire to enter and secure one, the number of required studies is being diminished, and experiments are being tried in voluntary recitations. The direction in which the policy is tending to advance is plain; as yet, however, while such a mixture of regulations exists, Harvard would seem to partake largely of the nature of a what...
From the hills to valleys low...
...Silentio," which for indecency is unsurpassed. It is surprising that the public opinion of any American college, large or small, will tolerate such a thing; and if the gross sensuality of the Dickinson poet is at all characteristic of his college, a state of morals must exist there as low and as dangerous as the most ardent hater of liberal education could desire...
...Tupper as a poet or Baird as a philosopher, - a writer who places Porter, as intellectual, opposed antithetically to Emerson and Fiske, as trivial; and who considers Porter's work the culmination of the intellect of Yale, - such a man, we say, has far too low an estimate of Yale's worth for us to contest it. But as the full array of Yale's centennial display bursts once more upon our stunned imagination, we can but say, with poor old Tate Wilkinson, after his famous walk to the window...
...wind's low rustling through the summer leaves...