Word: neighboring
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...When my neighbor calls to return a borrowed book, and for a whole hour imposes upon me his theories respecting the Eastern Question, all of which it required less than five minutes to glean from an article in a newspaper of the evening previous, I fully realize this evil. How soothing to my impatience is his assurance that he was not aware time was passing so quickly, when to me ages were slowly wearing away...
...seem to think he has been wasting his time. The young man whose room in Stoughton my nephew borrowed for his Class Day told me that he had got ninety-five per cent in his college course, and that he intended to study for a Ph. D. Besides, our neighbor Mrs. Beacon Street told me the other day that her son Harry, just after his last examinations, got permission from the Faculty to go back another year, in order to give a more thorough study to the work of the Freshman class. I think that shows the conscientious student...
...deepens as I take my seat, for I know that my dexter companion will give me no repose. My Plutonic melancholy, the heated room, the dull Livy, -all are conducive to slumber; the very instructor seems admirably chosen to that end: but my naps are broken by my active neighbor, who says, "The French Left Centre don't care for the status quo, and the Pope's legs are horribly swollen." Now I don't know what a status quo is, and I don't believe he does. Why will he talk so? I was secretly glad yesterday when...
...morning prayers. The singing is much better this year than it was last; but there is still room for improvement. Some members of the Glee Club, whose voices ought to be heard, find it too much trouble to open the hymn-book, or even to sing when some obliging neighbor finds the place for them. It seems a pity to have one of the best musicians in the country play the accompaniment to so small a volume of music. Reform is necessary, and reform is to be accomplished only by each one that can sing taking part...
THERE is a popular fallacy that it is impossible to criticise a neighbor's work without asserting one's own superiority over him. We hold that a man can see clearly the mote in his brother's eye, even while he has the beam in his own eye; therefore we feel at liberty to cry out loudly against the utter weariness, staleness, flatness, and unprofitableness of the poetry in college papers. Such poems as the "Thunder Tempest" and "Music" in the Bates Student are fair samples of our average mediocrity, and the result is to make a piece such...