Word: picks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Then the old man broke down and cried like a child. I strained my eyes a moment to catch a gleam of white upon the waves. Too late, too late! I stooped down to pick something from the slippery floor of the pier, just as it had fluttered down and fallen a moment since. A piece of blue ribbon that she had worn in her hair...
...remarks of our valued cotemporary in regard to our defence of the New Shakspere Society are both facetious and irrelevant. We fail to see what the Aristotelian ???, or a Chinese pick-pocket, or the Royal Asiatic Society has to do with the subject in hand. Nor should our valued cotemporary complain of "athletic tabular views and ornithological ghost-stories," so long as they furnish a text for its widely famed humorous pieces. And when, as a parting thrust, it playfully insinuates that the Crimson is beyond its depth in speaking of matters Shaksperian, it is guilty of a degree...
...time is all taken up. College life is in full swing, and our class has the reputation of being the liveliest that ever entered Harvard. The great thing here is to cultivate the men. Sometimes I think that many of them are not worth cultivating, - however, I have the pick of the class. Of course this sort of thing requires time and money, but I don't have to study any to speak of, and my allowance is generous, as the family are economizing in many ways. I wish the governor's business would brace up a little. I hate...
...young professor is the most worthy of study. He is not so learned, perhaps, as his elder fellow-workers, but he generally appears more so. Indeed, in his own estimation there never was any one quite so erudite as himself. He can correct Homer's Greek, or pick a flaw in Newton's mathematics. He is, in his small way, a living dictionary, and as versatile as a trained poodle at the circus. But has he not a kind of fellow-feeling with students, - from whom he is removed by only a few years? Hardly; for that would be beneath...