Word: said
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Here, it was said, the woods teemed with the partridge, the fields in the vicinity of the town with quail, while myriads of black ducks revelling in this paradise of lakes were sure to afford the hunter excellent sport. If this easy game should cloy on the overfed appetite of the sportsman, and he should sigh for a crack at the more hardy fowl which brave the storms of our rock-bound coast, the Gurnet and Mamamet points would afford the desired opportunity, where "thousands of millions" of birds of passage daily pass...
...quail, and the tail-feathers of a blue-jay. On comparing notes, our feelings were somewhat relieved on learning that no one had missed a really fair shot, that if they had had a dog they would have secured a large number of birds, etc., etc. The birds, they said, flew with surprising rapidity and a startling noise, and as they had always been told that it was dangerous to carry a gun on full cock, they really had not time to cock it and bring it to the shoulder before the birds had disappeared. These difficulties they...
With regard to the changes consequent upon the recent action of the Corporation, a few words might be said. It is well known that the expenses of the Nine are mostly met by gate receipts; but as no more admission money can be taken on Jarvis, a large part of the Nine's support is taken away, and consequently larger subscriptions must be raised. Thus the Nine, which was before almost self-supporting, becomes largely dependent on the students for support. No games can be played on Jarvis with non-college clubs, and of course college games will...
...present dinner-hour is not conducive to health - we positively deny. It is, we believe, a fact, and supported by all writers on hygiene, that the healthiest time for the heartiest meal of the day is near noon, not later, at least, than three o'clock. It has been said, however, that this advantage of the present hour of dinner is modified by the necessity of recitation and study immediately preceding and following dinner. This may be so; the great tension of the mind attendant on severe mental labor should be relaxed before eating; but that there is sufficient tension...
This brings us to the question of success. If what has been already said be true, if the noblest part of man's nature makes him long for what can never be attained in this life, if the desire for this and struggle after this are more to be coveted than all temporal prosperity, must not that success, in the narrow sense that this author uses the word, be just the thing not to be desired, and a feeling of failure, notwithstanding the work of a lifetime, be the best proof of a faith worth having? To quote once more...