Word: state
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...father is a lawyer. When I left home last fall for college, he said: "My dear boy some time you may be in want of advice such as I cannot give you. If that is the case, go to the best lawyer in Boston and state your trouble to him. Some men, and many women, like to send their sons to parsons. But I tell you, a lawyer knows forty times as much about the world as a parson does...
...where this heathen citadel was situated. After looking for a long time in the wrong place, I was successful, - a result which I had expected would give me a great deal of pleasure. But when I came to compare my feelings after finding Kars with my state of mind before its discovery, I could not perceive that I felt any happier. In fact, I did not feel so happy; for now, whenever I heard any one mention Turkey, I had an insane desire to talk too. The natural and melancholy result was a mortifying exhibition of my ignorance. Truly, thought...
...leave college on account of ill health. But we caution such against the examinations. They have them once a month! The annual examination takes place at the end of the College year, and is conducted before "a disinterested committee of gentlemen of education from various districts of the State." The catalogue does not explain itself, but we suppose they are proctors...
...Beacon, and only doubt whether it praises sufficiently the institution which it represents. It is absurd for the Argus to speak of local pride and petty conceit. When a great and famous University, situated within a stone's toss of Boston Common, and having a magnificent view of the State House, enjoying the inestimable advantage of inhaling the pure, moral, and intellectual ether of the Athens of America; its Senior class disporting itself in the salons of an ex-governor and an eminent lecturer, and enjoying the society of three deans, two professors, and an authoress, - when such a university...
...mention these facts, not from any wish to prove that the "bad air" of our Harvard recitation-rooms is of no account, but rather to show that there are students who can put up with a state of things that to us, fortunately, is intolerable. Happily our "shady side" is not that we live "hermetically sealed...