Word: show
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...professors not only give us the conclusions from a life study of their special subjects, but also show us how simple and natural the methods of experiment, how numerous the sources from which we may obtain materials, and that the process of thought on subjects most remote from the mind in its early years is in no way different from that we have employed many times on familiar subjects. Their greatest desire and most beneficial service is to infuse every mind coming within their reach with as great an interest as possible in the subject to be studied, leaving...
...freak, and only the outcropping of an intense egotism and vanity, adopted for the sake of attaining a notoriety, and adds nothing to him in the estimation of his classmates. The dignity of this self-sought reserve is one-sided, and viewed from another point is but a poor show, revealing only moroseness and a general appearance of ill-will...
...Packer Quarterly lies before us, and we have no hesitation in pronouncing it the best exchange which has come to our table this year. Its articles are written upon subjects to which its fair contributors show themselves able to do justice; there is no attempt made to soar upon wings which the greatest men of the times have lacked strength to propel, while at the same time, that other extreme, so suggestive of elementary spelling-books and "puss-in-the-corner," is nowhere to be met with in its pages. It is very interesting, extremely sensible, and thoroughly feminine...
...neglected, as they are now, on that account. You will very probably say that educated men gain an experience of men and affairs, after leaving college, which gives them this greater consideration, - and who will not agree with you? - but it would be hard, and more, for you to show that this experience differs in any marked degree from that which the comparatively illiterate can and do obtain as well without ever stepping within the portals of a college. It is not yet sufficiently plain to us, furthermore, that nearly all our good political leaders have been scholars, and almost...
...sometimes we receive articles the writers of which show marked ability, and handle their subjects with considerable skill; and are obliged to refuse them, because they are written upon matters which we cannot, as a college organ, publish. It is no small trial for an editor to be compelled to consign articles like these to the oblivion of the waste-basket, which he does with a sigh of regret that talent should be so misapplied, at the expense of his columns, so hungry for copy. The most favorite subject seems to be "Popular Men"; and these rather indefinite creatures...