Word: paper
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lowell: Democracy; Tennyson: (New) Locksley Hall; Adams: The Emancipation of Mass.; Bain: The Senses and the Intellect; Mill: Utilitarianism; Abbott: Kant's Theory of Ethics; Martial, Paley & Stone's editions; Songs of Harvard, 70 cents; magazines for February; recent importations of Schiller's works in fine bindings and in paper, 5 sets of Schiller's dramatic works; Goethe's work, 18 vols., and Schiller's Maria Stuart, William Tell and Wallenstein, in paper...
Before going on their trip the nine defeated the "Orients" of East Boston 97 to 11; "a fine exhibition in the eyes of the ladies, but which did not at all satisfy the expectations of the amateurs." Again, in the same paper we find a complaint that the second nine has in "three well-contested matches" defeated the Harvard nine. "We offer no comment," says the Advocate, "none is needed...
...Lowell: Democracy; Tennyson: (New) Locksley Hall; Adams: The Emancipation of Mass.; Bain: The Senses and the Intellect; Mill: Utilitarianism; Abbott: Kant's Theory of Ethics; Martial, Paley & Stone's editions; Songs of Harvard, 70 cents; magazines for February; recent importations of Schiller's works in fine bindings and in paper, 5 sets of Schiller's dramatic works; Goethe's work, 18 vols., and Schiller's Maria Stuart, William Tell and Wallenstein, in paper...
...sophistical way of thinking and reasoning that is often absolutely destructive to high purposes. How many of the amateur philosophers and nineteenth Greeks in college to-day could give even a plausible reason for the constitutionality of a bill in Congress - a question asked on a recent examination paper. And if they could not answer intelligently to themselves, whether the promoters and the signers of such a bill were doing their country a service, pray how much more intelligent voters, and how much more useful citizens would they make than their own gardners or coachmen? There are plenty of places...
...course, in whatever matter the examination paper is prepared, we all know the subjects well enough to meet the demands upon our intelligence (and our imagination as well sometimes); but every student has a sympathy with certain parts of his work, and takes more interest in those parts than in others. He would perfer always to dilate upon these favorite topics. Under the old system it was as Cicero would say "bull-luck" whether he had a chance or not. Under the new regime he can show himself to better advantage...