Word: said
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...particularly so. This decline is explained and justified, as so many other things are, by a hasty allusion to "the spirit and the temper of the age" (of this great and good age whose tendencies should be fondled only, and condemned never). Greek and Latin are dead, it is said, and should be buried; but the modern languages and the sciences are alive and full of practical interest. How much or how little truth there is in this cry it is not necessary or possible to discuss here, for I am considering, not whether Greek should be taught...
...grammar, of philology, of history, of geography, etc. But with us this order is reversed, and "the finest literature of the world" is buried out of sight under a mass of important nothings, scholastic notes and comments. Of course this averment will be denied, and it will be said that the instructor helps the student to the classic meaning by his explanations, and so the scholiasts were, no doubt, defended. In truth, however, it happens again and again that the student of some Greek play attends recitations faithfully, listens carefully to what is said at them, fills sheet after sheet...
...blessing is said, and the sinners disband...
...thousand, 't is said, was paid for the choir...
...system; there is no cause for discouragement, or reason to believe the rumors that are spread abroad that the present system is to be given up at Christmas or next term. Indeed, these latter statements have been declared false by the highest authority. In what we have said, however, we refer to the class, not to individuals. Some men have absented themselves almost entirely, and have received warning of the danger of seeking this unreasonable liberty. Nor can we regard this warning as unjust when we consider that all future classes may be influenced by the action of '75 this...