Word: means
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...WHAT brought you to prison, my colored friend?" said a Yankee to a negro. "Two constables, sah." "Yes, but I mean, had intemperance anything to do with it?" "Yes, sah, dey was bof drunk." - Vassar...
...difficulties of this style of writing have always been acknowledged, and have required the skill and experience of authors of no mean merit, since the days of the greatest of children's epics, "Mother Goose." The difficulties arising from the age of these young writers must have been peculiarly great. Young men, if we mistake not, are not proverbially fond of children. Not youthful enough to enter into childish thoughts and feelings, they are not old enough to take that fatherly interest in them which, later on in life, will bridge the years between childhood and age in such...
...advisable for a college graduate who does not mean to be a teacher permanently, to keep school for a year or more after leaving college...
...FAIR presumption seems to exist that one will find in a college man a firm opponent of cant; if, at least, we mean by that term "the repetition of a creed after it has become a phrase by the cooling of that white-hot conviction which once made it both the light and warmth of the soul," as Mr. Lowell defines it. But however this may be in regard to religion and such indifferent matters, one cannot be so sure of a college man's hatred of cant when he comes face to face with something in regard to which...
However true this may be of the more advanced attainments in the art, the reasoning does not seem to hold with regard to the fundamental instruction like that now given to one class, and which might well be extended to the others, - instruction, we mean, in ordinary reading, in which we are notably slack, and instruction in the cultivation of the voice. It is in these that we need not only what we have, but more. We should have not only a course for the last class, but for all, - a course, or a series of courses, which shall...