Word: mirror
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...bachelor's room is always a mirror of his character,' said a literary-looking young lady. 'Behold this filthy pipe, - he is a smoker; observe those German favors, - he is a society man; witness the publicity of these certificates of society membership, - he is conceited...
...then ascended to the gallery. Upon the wall on one side was a mirror of fifty or more feet in length. My question was forestalled by the information that "the Freshmen practise the 'Harvard Swing' along there." We passed on. Through a half-open door I caught a glimpse of a few men putting up dumb-bells. I drew nearer, but my companion grasped me by the arm, and said in a hoarse whisper, "Don't go in there. It is dangerous. They are Law Students. Don't you see their beards?" I did n't, but nevertheless hurried away...
Myself you mirror in your wave...
...purposes which the college paper accomplishes in American college life are numerous and important. It is, in the first place, a mirror of undergraduate sentiment, and is either scholarly or vulgar, frivolous or dignified, as are the students who edit and publish it. A father, therefore, debating where to educate his son, would get a clearer idea of the type of moral and intellectual character which a college forms in her students from a year's file of their fortnightly paper, than from her annual catalogue or the private letters of her professors. To the college officers, also...
...derived from the "Divina Commedia." The following phrases are remarkable for elegance of expression: "Under the loving surveillance of his blissful guide": "Along the endless corridors of time"; "He (the setting sun) casts his loveliest and softest glances yet once more upon the tops of mountains, or into the mirror of the ocean, to make his departure more heavily, and to awaken more lively desire for his return...