Word: points
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...suffering afterwards the tortures of a guilty conscience. In the "Deformed Transformed," Arnold, a hunchback, sells his soul to the Devil, who takes the name of Caesar; his noble spirit, however, obtains him glory, and he retires from the play with a love he wins at the point of the sword...
...aims to be witty. True wit resides in the man, and is not the result of education; it is the gift of nature. The more manifest reasons that the so-called funny writings are not favorably received in college journals is, because they appear to have no point to them; or if they have their applications, they are so poorly carried out, either by inability on the part of the writer or by his seemingly forgetting his primary object, that the interest awakened at the beginning gradually fails. It is difficult for the college writer to find worthy objects...
Thus you perceive that the programme of secondary instruction is the same for all France. Before, however, making you acquainted with this programme, let me first point out one peculiarity. In your country there is a natural transition from the common schools to the high schools, and from these last to the colleges. Scholars who wish to make their course complete, generally follow through the grades of these schools. They rise, insensibly, by examinations, from the primary school to college. With us there is nothing similar. Primary instruction is enclosed within an impassable barrier. The scholar who goes...
...fact that the great poets of all ages have been poor; and have been driven to the Muses by starvation. Nothing is so conducive to poetic thoughts as an empty stomach; genius becomes more active and more ethereal at the absence of bodily nutriment. In after ages men will point to the THAYER CLUB as the birthplace of scores of famous bards. There dwell our Cambridge Muses; and the idea of many a masterpiece has been evolved during the "fine frenzy" following the weekly dinner on turkey and cranberry-sauce...
...opera is attractive, not one man in ten knows what to do with himself. Billiards, and a dinner at Parker's or Maison Doree; is the unsatisfactory result. Now, to a man capable of enjoying anything higher, there are other resources than these, which it is my object to point...