Word: sinks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard life I may perhaps have sadly disappointed readers who have formed their notions of the subject from sundry common reports frequently alluded to in the public prints. Harvard, according to these authorities, may be an excellent place for learning, but morally it is held to be a sink of iniquity. At Harvard College there are to-day more than a thousand students, from all parts of America, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five. Among these are naturally a certain number of young reprobates, who rather dislike their escapades to remain unknown. As a class, these students...
...dread of finding the ground covered with ten inches of snow which better experience has taught, will be as many inches of slush at night; where one can walk confidently from place to place on civilized walks, and not have to step gingerly along, expecting each moment to sink ankle deep...
...they were progressing towards the acquirement of the graces needed for actual life. They took possession of the university theatre, and delivered addresses and recited poems of their own with as much gravity and dignity as Mr. Lowell or Mr. Holmes. The traditions of American life sink deep, and the pattern is everywhere the same. Two orators and two poets, chosen by vote of the undergraduates themselves, in turn commemorated the glories of Harvard, criticized its system, and exhorted to emulation of its past. The most perfect decorum prevailed; in fact any one who had witnessed the pandemonium...
...game as it advances is gradually tending to sink the individual into the team, - the part into the whole. We do not look for, nor desire, a team of brilliant players. Let us have men who can all take part in one play, and not one team made up of eleven separate players...
...intelligence that the faculty have decided in favor of semi-annual examinations. We are to be no longer tortured by a fearful looking forward to frequent judgements during the ten weary months of college work - the roots of such learning as we have acquired are to be permitted to sink deeply into the soil without being endangered by such exposure as must come when the over-inquisitive professor insists upon digging them up in order to obtain how far they have sprouted. Hereafter, the fall work being thoroughly reviewed is to be set aside forever...