Word: placing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...understand by this, however, that the Methodists, Baptists, etc., in Gallatin are really heathens, because they are distinguished from the "Christians." We do not see clearly the distinction, but we cannot believe that heathens form a large proportion of the inhabitants of a place where the public taste is so elevated as to frown down any immoral or insubordinate action...
...HAVE often been struck with the number of epithets that are applied to our University. As each person's opinion differs, so does his epithet. A fond mother declares that Cambridge is a horrid place (whatever that may mean) for young men. A maiden aunt, who has heard of her nephew's troubles, that it is as much as a boy's life is worth to go to such a college, and that she would not send a son there if she had one. A father, that it has great advantages, but is frightfully expensive. Our young lady friend...
...think that he has tasted more deeply of the pleasures of life elsewhere than it is possible to do in Cambridge. Then, again, your man of the world calls it a "hole," - meaning, I fancy, that we live in a provincial, slow, one-horse sort of a place. If you tell this gentleman that you consider hole to be rather strong he politely informs you that had you known anything better (I suppose he means worse), or had you mixed at all with the world, you also would call Cambridge a hole. This leaves you with the comfortable feeling that...
...abundance. To insure the expedition's success a professor might accompany it to superintend the scientific arrangements, and aid the students in their studies during the long winters in camp. A successful termination of the enterprise would be of immense value to science, and the honor of a place on the successful sledge would surpass even that of pulling stroke on the 'Varsity. So much for the proposal. Without meaning to be taken seriously, the World has suggested something that might suit the inclinations of our athletic men. Such expeditions have repeatedly been made by Russian officers from Siberia...
...same trouble comes into many of our affairs. There is no definite object for which a man can work. Time was when it was something to row well. A place on the crew was a thing to excite the ambition of any man. Now, there is no object sufficient to bring out the best material for the boat. How, in fact, can a man distinguish himself here, - make a name that every one will acknowledge was worth making? He may lead his class, and no one but his few rivals will care at all. He may be stroke...