Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Never crossed my mind, I assure you. Let me make the fire," answered he, looking first to see that his offer was a safe...
...climb over the piled-up wood of the tender is impossible. I give up my hat to a sudden blast of wind. Now comes a demoniac shower of fire, - the grate is open ! A swarthy Vulcan rakes the ashes, and another throws in the wood, - Arcades ambo ! I cannot see ; innumerable particles of fiery ashes fly into my face. Frenzied, I pull my hat over my eyes...
...argument is a simple one: I am independent, therefore I am unpopular. Let us see if his reasoning is sound. It is one of the conditions of civilization that the customs and precedents of the society in which we live shall influence our conduct. It is the conservative element in a state that keeps it from anarchy. But these commonplace truths are ignored by the independent man. In the face of established and recognized principles he blurts out his opinions. He thinks it is great and original to pronounce, though unsolicited, his views on college life, and the motives which...
...have a seat at a table on the dais at the end of the Hall. I can't say that I like it quite as well as I did Brown's, but, on the whole, I think it good enough for a law-student like myself. You see I did n't get my degree last year, and so now I am determined to rough it. To come to the point, I had always regarded the men who boarded here somewhat in the light of barbarians, but I was hardly prepared to find them sunk so deep in their barbarism...
...condescension on Harvard's part. We trust, however, that no such feeling will arise. It is natural and right that Harvard should particularly wish to defeat Yale, and that she should make other things subservient to that wish. Any one who studies Harvard's action in this affair will see the existence of a real desire to row Columbia. Our challenge has certainly received careful attention; and the only question which prevents its immediate acceptance is a natural one of expedience. Columbia wants to row some college; and, for all reasons, Harvard is the most desirable. No false ideas...