Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Better and less critical medicine is to say that the Harlowmen had been told all about how tough Brown was going to be, but they still could not believe it until it was too late. Psychologically the reaction was all in Brown's favor...
...outlook against Cornell, all-American end Brud Holland et al, is rather glum. It is glum enough to realize that they soundly whipped a really topnotch Colgate team, glummer still when you realize that Cornell will outweigh Harvard 21 pounds to a man in the backfield. Still, Harvard is a better underdog than top-dog; that has been proved often...
...vain attempt to rescue a fugitive slave he charged the Boston courthouse singlehanded, after one man had been killed and while bullets were still flying, thought so little of the act that he barely noted it in his diary. Of sure taste, he inspired Emerson, recognized Whitman, Thoreau, Melville and Lowell when they were unknown, made critical appraisals of them which still stand. Readers of his Journals will have no difficulty in seeing why Emerson and Hawthorne praised him so highly, are likely to feel it more puzzling that he has been neglected for so long...
...desk, the calendar, the typewriter. Well enough; they had been so in the past. And there was the Falstaffian old leather Morris chair with its spinster companion, the ever slightly drunken bridge lamp, leaning confidentially over its shoulder--looking the same as ever. But will the old combination still breed the same pleasant spawn of thoughts, the Vagabond wondered? Could they still whisper the same mental innuendoes of Donne when he thought of English 30, or of Dewing when he thought of Ec. 61? Last year they did, but that was in the Old familiar room. When...
Pensively the Vagabond flicked a key of his Old Underwood. Would it still be able to unravel those neat, printed letters which somehow lessen the chaos of thought? Could it still supply the right word, the proper touch to sentences in this foreign atmosphere? Then suddenly, in the vast loneliness of unfamiliar surroundings, he remembered again how Freshmen feel. How awful and unhuman and unknowable college seems. How important and lightning and complicated a History 1 lecture can sound. How vast and impersonal and uninterested the Union can feel. How suave and learned and acquainted everyone else can seem when...