Word: naming
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...most thankless task to perform in College is the director of the Reading-Room. It is with feelings of pity that we have noticed his crestfallen look after he has asked half a dozen men to subscribe and has received not a single name. He is one from whom much is required and to whom little is given. If the gas in the room is cut off, if each subscriber's pet paper is not furnished him, or if there is anything else which is not just as it should be, the director is called to account...
...time-tables, which I studied carefully before leaving Christiania.) On board the steamboat I talk affably to the passengers around me. They are very good listeners, but no conversationalists. They say nothing to me, but only smile and shake their heads. Finally I ask a gray-haired man the name of the lake on which we are sailing. He replies thoughtfully, "Most always on Sunday." I repeat my question, thinking he misunderstood me. He says, " I no understand English." I reply sarcastically, "Evidently not." He smiles sweetly and is silent...
...what steamer it is, and they reply the "Rusher." Name strikes me favorably. I ask if she is named "Rusher" on account of her speed. The clerk smiles, but makes no reply. I take the best berth that is left. Jenkins, who has been abroad some twenty times or more, tells me it is the poorest berth on the ship; he also charges me to be very particular about what I wear when on board. I immediately order a new diagonal suit of clothes and purchase a fine silk...
...over to Jersey City, and after much difficulty find the Cunard wharf. (Observe that the steamer's name is spelt "Russia.") Leave my baggage to be taken care of by an expressman; as we leave the dock I see him driving leisurely down on the wharf with my three trunks in his wagon. Pretend that it is of no consequence, and say nothing about...
...delighted with No. 7, the head by Velasquez, from its color, still beautiful, and its simple, manly treatment; though not in Velasquez's best style, perhaps, it far exceeds in value for study the other pictures there. Of the other two pictures, Nos. 8 and 9, to which the name of Velasquez is attached, their close likeness to larger pictures certainly his, and the great inferiority of the latter to the former, render it very doubtful whether they are really his. Nothing very useful could be expected from Murillo, and the picture we have here...