Word: mans
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...eyes, - large, deep, lustrous eyes. They walked over to the opposite table and registered. Then they surveyed the room, looking up and down, falling here and there, and withering "dig" after "dig" with their piercing gaze. At last, they too walked out; and I was surprised to see every man straightway leave his seat to seek the name of the fair visitor. They crowded about the book, and I heard a disappointed voice say, "Keokuk, Iowa." It was a clear case of "Go West, young man...
...thing is wanting to perfect the plan, and consummate our boasted liberality. In short, all we need is a professor of phrenology. Nay, do not be startled; this is truly an original idea, and, moreover, I will show you the utility of my proposition. I affirm that no man ought to be allowed to choose his own electives. The professor of phrenology should do it for him. Only picture to yourself a student having his head manipulated by my ideal professor, who thus comments on the capacities of his subject: "Memory, pretty fair; reverence, none; mechanical ability (gouging, boring holes...
Imagine the professor examining another man; and thus disposing of him: "Memory, poor; mathematics, none; language, wanting; perspicacity, none; common-sense, the merest trifle. Why, upon my word, you are admirably prepared for the law school or the scientific school...
Suppose a third man to be thus spoken of: "Prolixity, large; self-esteem, big; secretiveness, plentiful; amativeness, immense; paper-collars, overwhelming. You, sir, evidently are designed by Providence for the theological school...
Miscellaneous.- Lafayette is wildly excited at the recent marriage of a '78 man...