Word: roome
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...good in a man. Culture, considered as an end, runs into egotism, self-conceit, and a "learned ignorance," which Socrates was the first to expose. It is of the first that Kenelm Chillingly is a type. It is the second that he takes pains to deride. We have no room to speak of the other characters of the book, - of Lilly, for whose death no one can lament, for by such a woman the hero would have been influenced in the direction of his weakness rather than in that of his strength; of Mivers, and his Londoner, so like...
From want of room we are obliged to defer notice of other books, from the same publishers, until our next number...
Shedding the freshness of Eden over each desolate room...
...skunk them." I believe there is no corresponding expression in vogue here, perhaps from the very reason that such customs are not indulged in, though it is not best to be too inquisitive on that point. Hint to a collegian that he has stolen certain "ornaments" in his room, and he will resent it as an insult; accuse him of "ragging" them, and he will smile blandly,-the odium attached to the word "steal" is gone. In Germany, a student in the gymnasium is called a "frog," and in his first half-year after entering a university he is termed...
...soon as the grateful odor of coffee and cigars had diffused itself through the room, the President, Mr. C. W. Wetmore, arose, and in a farewell address to the Society, and a welcome to the new members, did honor to himself and the Institute...