Word: man
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...doubled interest. Most undergraduates are as profoundly ignorant of all that concerns the French, Italian, and Spanish literature as they are of German literature, and, having no acquaintance with the languages, are obliged to remain in ignorance of a great deal that is indispensable for every fairly well-informed man. That a large number of the ladies of Cambridge would lend their presence to swell the number of listeners no one can doubt who takes the trouble to cast his eye over the audience at any one of the lectures now in course of delivery...
...University, having filled his chair for twenty years. He had previously borne high office, and performed distinguished service, alike in the executive, legislative, and judicial departments of the State government, and had been, from his early manhood, a successful and honored member of the legal profession. He was a man of excellent ability, of the most strenuous diligence, of an integrity absolutely impenetrable, and of a benevolence which made his whole life an unceasing ministry of kindness. Those who knew him best knew not that he had a fault, and no man had more fully than he the profound respect...
There seems to be no one on the Era board who is able to translate French. The paper translates all the quotations from other languages which it uses; but a person who could tell what is meant when the Era, referring to a man who has left college, says, "the corps has lost a most genial confrere," would be an addition to the editorial staff...
There is another reason why the college rents are at present not too high. It is that every man has a right to get what price he can for his property, and as long as the rooms are regularly let at the present prices, it would be folly in the College to decrease them. Expensive rooms are provided for the wealthy, and comfortable, but plain ones for the poorer students. It frequently happens, too, that some of the best rooms in the Yard, - as some in Hollis and Stoughton, - are let at very low prices. Thus it is certain that...
...truth is, men are hanging back to see who their antagonists are going to be. This is, of course, nonsense; if a man is capable of entering into an athletic contest at all, he ought not to be afraid to have it known that he considers himself a fair match for any other man of the same weight who may happen to be his opponent. We understand the feeling that prompts this procrastination, but cannot do otherwise than condemn it; somebody must make the first advances, and so long as a man has made up his mind to spar...