Word: stick
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...islands, by the investigations of the depths of the ocean, collections of natural history will be enlarged almost to infinity; and it will be harder and harder to place them in our museums, and to preserve them. Everywhere buildings begin to be insufficient; and if we were to stick to the old system, according to which a museum exhibits nearly all its objects the large central depositories of natural history would grow to an enormous extent. The organization of the Cambridge museum tries to meet equally the demands of science and the wants of the public which comes for information...
...when he was elected he could do nothing. The boards were responsible only to the legislature, and the majority there voted as a party measure against any investigation. And besides this there is a council over him, also locally elected. But in the next election Gen. Butler did not stick to his point, but ran the campaign on egotism, and so lost. This is the danger of our system. All individuality is lost in committees...
...reader know how to play a game at cricket-match? Two posts are placed at a great distance from one another. The player, close to one of the posts, throws a large ball towards the other party, who awaits the ball to send it far with a small stick with which he is armed. The other players then run to look after the ball, and while this search is going on the party who struck it with the stick runs incessantly from post to post, marking one for each run. It is plain, then, that it is to the advantages...
...kind in the world. Lincoln and St. John Colleges are smaller than the average and of but little interest with the exception that the former contains a manuscript copy of the Wycliffe bible and was the Alma Mater of John Wesley, while the latter treasures the hat and walking stick used by Archibishop Land on his way to execution...
...Emerson's intellectual proportions measured with "a British foot-rule," it cannot possibly enter into any discussion based on Emerson's merit or place. But it might be said that "a British foot-rule" is a far more accurate standard of measurement than an American yard-stick, when the latter measures four feet to the yard. Of course, argument is useless in such a question. It can never be settled until posterity itself decides...