Word: means
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...then will say that Harvard poets are not different from other poets? They sing longer, louder, and better than the poets of other colleges. They say more, if they mean less, than other writers of their stamp. They mark distinctly a growing element in Harvard culture. Indigestion and good health are as clearly marked in Harvard verse as in the writings of a Lucy Larcom or a Carlyle. Poetry is one means open to us for the expression of our better thoughts. The verse in which we speak takes on a new significance, expresses a deeper power, as we grow...
...unsectarian college? It is asserted that it loses influence through want of support by any sect. It appears to be indifferent to religion. There is a fallacy in these assertions. One may enthusiastically believe doctrine, and yet be opposed to forcing it upon another. Religious liberty does not mean that interest in religion is extinguished. A national college in America must be tolerant. In all colleges students should be taught to respect the forms of religion as well as religion itself. A fruitful source of irreligion is mutual denunciation among sects. Nobody knows how to teach morality effectively without religion...
...have noticed two classes of individuals which these trying times produce, who ought to be ostracised by their fellow men, and, as it were, withered in the bud. We mean the growlers, and those of coroner instincts who hold post-mortems over their examinations. The growler, unlike his bibulous namesake, is a cause of depression and nervous exhaustion wherever he goes. It is enough, in the agonies of a protracted grind, to feel your own ignorance and shortcomings without having some lugubrious acquaintance darkly accusing the faculty, the fates, and the well - others, for things for which his own misapplication...
...more expensive than gas, so that there is no reason why we should not all have the electric lights in our rooms, if the faculty would only undertake it, just as they now manage steam heat in the buildings. The following figures will, perhaps, explain more fully what I mean. There are about three hundred and twenty rooms in the yard; for each room the occupant burns on an average six dollars worth of gas and kerosene per year; those men who save on their gas bills making up the average by means of kerosene. This makes an annual bill...
...considered as slightly hypercritical. If Byron was a brute, we want to know it just as distinctly as to know whether Wordsworth was after all a wingless angel. Yet, it is true that the rehearsal of personal memories at times grows to be tiresome garrulity. If some golden mean could be found some way by which we could all study that portion of a writer's life and works which would exactly meet the wishes of all, the complaint would be well based. But such a mean has not been discovered. We are still forced to wade, knee-deep...