Word: outer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...first independent railway journey - at the mature ago of twelve, - I indulged in the delights of a five-cent cigar, and felt horribly and horribly guilty for the next three days. A mater is a sort of colossal Mrs. Jellyby. She was so busy with the affairs of the outer world that she cannot find time to attend to the manners and morals of her children; and the natural consequence is that some of these children fall into the very objectionable practice of eating with their knives, while others, of a more vicious if more elegant temperament, indulge in various...
...term "liberal advantages" has among most of our students a meaning quite foreign to that prevalent in the outer world. To us it implies not only favorable opportunities for developing our mental qualities, but also a certain liberality in choosing to take advantage of such opportunities. To be careless about our studies, to look down upon any show of energy and capacity for work, is "liberal." To make study the business of our college lives, and to believe that industry is an admirable quality, is at once to degrade ourselves to the level of students at the smaller colleges...
Number one, which was on the inside nearest the bank, and number two turned the inside stake, while number three had the outer stake entirely to itself. The same rule was followed in the six-oared race...
...then further our amicable relations by all the means in our power, and set an example to those colleges that are yet struggling in outer darkness. If Yale men regard us as a trifle snobbish, a shade supercilious, a jot too conscientious, a tittle quixotic, and ever so little conscious of our own superiority, - let us beg them to bear with us. Although our language be strangely fastidious, - our personal appearance impertinently neat, we do not, surely, mean to be insulting; and it is not without reason that we are encouraged to hope that our Yale friends will endeavor...
THERE has lately been much discussion in student circles about that characteristic of Harvard undergraduates which we choose to call "indifference," - a term which is often used for laziness in very much the same way as, in the circles of outer darkness, "financial irregularity" is used for fraud. This indifference - to keep the more general term - is usually supposed to result from a precocious and unerring insight into the realities of things, and a moral and intellectual nature of too high a "tone" to take any interest in the vulgar and short-sighted struggles of the external world. The Harvard...