Word: manly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...appropriate the surplus to the purpose just mentioned, and I think that Ninety-two would not be acting in opposition to an established precedent, if it were to vote the money to the crew management. Nothing is surer than that the crew will need the financial aid of every man in the class, and if the members vote to turn this amount over to the crew, they will show that they intend to furnish the financial support which is so necessary for the success of Niney-two's interests on the water...
...subject, he began by saying, was best stated as "realing in college." Though this simple knowledge how to read gives to man, whatever his other acquirements, the solid basis for an education, yet the library-the greater opportunity here-is neither fully nor wisely used. Before men have learned to choose, they are injured by the tremendous mass offered to them, much of which is trivial, much enervating, much even bad. For reading, like the choice of friends, is serious; no gentleman can spend time upon low-minded books. And the time spent merely upon what is trivial...
...great many lists have been recently published of the "hundred best books." The lists are often entertaining, but not valuable. For no hundred best books can be picked out. Eight, or six, or four,- the books that every cultured man must know, are easily selected. They cannot be read for mere amusement; rather for delight, a delight that grows steadily with time and study. Beyond these very few, every man, according to his associations and individual taste, will fill out a different hundred. For instance,- Prof. Norton said,- a gentleman in England of the richest acquirements and the ripest...
Each body, then, must make out his own list as he goes. But at the outset, a man may safely take those which the whole world has decisively stamped as the best. These would be Homer, Virgil, aeschylus, and Sophocles and. beyond all doubt, Aristophanes; Lucre tires, and Plato. In the middle ages, the Divine Comedy which has most perfectly expressed their thought and their emotions; the prelude to this, Dante's Vita Nuova; the Life of St. Louis, by Joinville, the Romance of the Cid, and the Arthurian Romances. In later times the number of names really great...
...necessary to go behind and say much in general about the value of books. Through them we learn man, the chief interest to all mankind...