Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...where a man could fill himself with learning to his own delectation and whence he could go into the outside world with no sense of responsibility to his fellow creatures, long ago passed away. The advance university men are making now, is in feeling their responsibility while they are still within the college walls,and indeed, in considering it an important part of their training here to acquaint themselves with the various methods of social service in the world at large...
During the summer, an attempt was made by Yale graduates to see whether Harvard still held to her first position; but the only definite proposition advanced was the "correspondence" between Captains Thorne and Brewer, which, not to mention its artificial character, was an affront to Harvard in that it was but a disguised repetition of Captain Thorne's letter, and implied a total lack of seriousness in Harvard's reply...
...attend upon him in his pretended ailments, intends to give his daughter, Angelique, in marriage to the new-made Dr. Diafoirus, the nephew of Purgon, his physician. Both Argan and Diafoirus are exhibiting, the former his credulity, and the latter his pedantry, in a most comical manner, which is still more striking by the cutting remarks of the servant, Toisette...
...just presented to the Botanical Museum an interesting specimen of the flowering cluster of cocoanut, collected by him this summer in Jamaica. On the cluster which is still tightly packed inits firm sheath, there are many unopened buds, a few blossoms widely open, and some young fruits no larger than horse-chestnuts...
...spite of the new laboratory built this year, there is still hardly room to accommodate the students. It will be necessary to put up a new building or an addition to the present building soon...