Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sure to support it, that so many of us are backward. This being the case, has not the Reading-Room a claim on all, even upon those who do not use it, inasmuch as it is one of the students institutions, the advantages of whose success we should all share and whose failure we should all alike regret...
...other excuses it would be hard to defend; No one really supposes that the support given last year can be of any assistance this year, nor does any one expect that others will pay their share and his too; but still such reasons do very well when good ones are wanting...
Undoubtedly college instruction is superior to that of almost any fitting school, if one has any foundation to rest upon. With large sections, the instructor is obliged often to lecture, and treat the students as men of honor who will do their share of the work, and derive additional benefit from his remarks to them. Thus men who come poorly fitted, but eager to learn, appreciate and derive greatest advantage, while those who may fancy the remarks as "too critical," "too old," gradually lose what they do know, and learn nothing...
...Unless I share them; yet my lips are sealed...
...entered heartily into the spirit of the occasion. At the close of the supper the President, Mr. Dickinson, after a few apt remarks, introduced the orator of the evening, Mr. MacArthur. At the close of the oration Mr. Olmsted, the toastmaster, was introduced, and to him a large share of the evening's pleasure was due. "Alma Mater" was responded to by W. S. Collins; "The Athenaeum of '77," by S. J. Watson; "The Dramatic Interest," by D. C. McMartin; "The Annuals," by W. R. Morris; "The Literary Interest," by C. F. Thwing; "The Ladies," by F. A. Blandy...