Word: mens
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...physician, and to her his early education is due. While quite young he evinced a taste for scientific study, which he developed by attending the College of Lausanne, and the famous Medical School at Zurich, and afterward the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich, where his teachers were such men as Tiedmann, Bischoff Leuckart, Schelling, Oken, Dollinger, Martius, and others of equal celebrity. At Munich he received the degree of M. D., at the age of nineteen, and in the same year the degree of Ph. D., at Erlangen. After the return of a scientific expedition to Brazil he was called...
...present day not to follow their course, if they would prosper. That this ought not to be the case is clear from one point of view. A college paper ought to present to the world a specimen of the best intellectual productions of the undergraduates. But the best men in college will not write; and if they did, we are confident such long literary articles would not be read by the majority of the students. And a college paper has necessarily such a limited circulation that, to exist, it must be universally supported...
...stamp on him. Examine his papers, - O shame! they are tracts. Swear thus to treat all invaders of the free soil of Cuba. Mysterious stranger says it is n't Cuba, it's Patchoughe, Long Island, and he 's a colporteur, and we are children of wrath. Band (three men and a reporter) advance and corroborate; also arrest us for vagrancy. Loathsome Bastiles. Bailed out by colporteur, who proves to be connected by marriage with Freshman's god-father. Afterwards learn that the blockade-runner only escaped by going to pieces. Crew saved by a large Newfoundland dog. Hate grinding...
...these first cold days, when the falling snow covers grass and trees, and the dark clouds seem to threaten a long storm, it is quite amusing to notice the different remarks with which men greet this earnest of winter. Some say, "A little more of this will give us very fair sleighing;" others, "How pretty it makes the Yard look!" but most declare with a sigh, "Now for wet feet and cold rooms and frozen ears." When we think of the number of this last class, it really seems worth while to consider whether winter could not be made...
Some few happy men find pleasure in books, - ay, and in books that are not novels, - and grind, with blissful visions of required studies anticipated; but many, though dreading the approach of the awful "last Thursday," are crushed under that most oppressive of "soft things," - a thirteen weeks' vacation...