Word: passing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...requested-." I sadly turn away. But can it be that this is not in Cambridge? I could well believe this to be one of the rooms in the "Annex" here at Wellesley, never. I am torn from the familiar surroundings and again traverse a corridor. The Chapl! We pass on. We enter an elegant and commodious elevator, are raised many stories and at last enter the Museum. Here are arrayed in all their princely magnificence the immense stores of dried plants gathered by the sophomores last spring. But the Museum is a disappointment, yet as our friend said...
Butler's Analogy-Professor: "Mr. T-,you may pass on to the ' Future Life,' " Mr. T-: "Not prepared...
...that the gloomy clouds of the examination period darken our days. We are all prone to be in a rather irritable frame of mind, and are apt to become excited over trifles which pass unheeded in happier times. This state of feeling has been shown in past years by incessant complaints of the thought-lessness of those musically-inclined students who persist in keeping up a vigorous course of piano or violin practice during examination time, greatly to the annoyance and indignation of their temporarily studious neighbors. But this year there seems to be a lull in this species...
...boat club during the recess. The gentlemen of that committee say that as they are not in accord with the under-graduates in the matter of a paid coach, it seems but proper for them to resign. It is, indeed, unfortunate that a state of things has come to pass, such as to bring a difference between this committee and the students. Since its organization, no one can deny that it has given material aid to the cause of boating at Harvard. Its members have worked hard, (and here let it be said that no one has ever worked harder...
Every now and then, here in Oxford, we pass famous men on the street, and it seems as natural as the sight of ordinary men elsewhere. Benjamin Jowett, the translator of Plato and the Vice Chancellor of the University, Max Muller, the greatest living writer on comparative religion ; Cannon Liddon, the first preacher in the English church; Principal Shairp, the another of "Culture and Religion ;" John Ruskin, Bonamy Price, and a host of others equally distinguished, attract but little attention. But having said so much for Oxford, patriotism leads me to add one word more. I believe that the average...