Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...bicycles that has been displayed of late at Harvard, has arisen the question, Can we get up and sustain a bicycling club here? There has been some discussion on the subject, but at present we are not aware that any decision has been reached. It is our desire to see such a club formed that has led us to investigate to some extent the history of the vehicle. We have drawn largely for our information upon the American Bicycling Journal, a fortnightly publication started last December, which contains much news about this sport...
Decidedly we hope before long to see a bicycling club formed at Harvard. Almost all our athletic sports have in some form or other availed themselves of the advantages attached to the club system, and to it is due, to no inconsiderable extent, the great increase of athletics of every description...
...said "intimate."] We do not, continues "Ossip," hereby " rescue" H. H. from "ruin." We admit that we only expect him to reflect upon the sally of wit; and our "only motive in speaking must be the assertion of our own principles of morality, and our oracular opinion." "Ossip" cannot see "what good or harm it does H. H., but the harm it does [us] in establishing [our] reputation as a meddlesome character is manifest...
...bitter experience. The windows, for instance, in the University recitation-rooms are, in nine cases out of ten, so arranged as to throw the sunlight right into the faces of the class, and to envelop the instructor in a deep shadow, whence, like the Homeric gods, he can see without being seen. Unpleasant as it is to be unable to distinguish the instructor's expression or to see what he is looking at, it is still more unpleasant to have the light bewildering our notes or shining in our eyes as we recite...
...affect our subsequent arguments, which were not directed to prove the falsehood of our misquotation, but to defend independence and its necessary accompaniment, - the clear expression, when proper, of disapprobation. Next, he says that he merely stated where we said he argued a certain proposition. Any reader will see that our " argue " meant no more than " state." This is trivial fault-finding. Further he says that our inference that part of his aim was to show that there was little toadyism in college was, as he thinks, intentionally wrong. We are glad that such was not his aim, and willingly...