Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rest of the College boys went to England. I had an interview with Mr. A. G. Hodges last evening and gave him a letter to the effect that you went purely for pleasure, and that no money except for your absolute expenses, was allowed. I can go still further and say that no money was paid to any of the gentlemen except upon their presentation of vouchers covering the amount of the preceeding week's expenses, all of which vouchers I have in my desk and can produce if necessary. The amount we limited you to per week for board...
...evening. They will give a concert at Washington Friday evening, after spending the day in the city. On Saturday evening their entertainment will be at Richmond, where they will remain over Sunday. On Monday night they will give a concert at Wilmington, N. C., and on Tuesday at Charleston. Still traveling southward, they will reach Augustain time for a concert on Wednesday, and Savannah, Thursday. On Friday, January 3, they will sail from Savannah to New York, and will reach Princeton Monday morning...
...approved. They may also be equipped and sent on scientific ex-peditions. They are expected during the year, to deliver a limited number of lectures on some special chapter of their departments but their time will be reserved for study and research a way best adapted to qualify them still more fully for academic advancement...
...this year. If we may trust our past experience, then, the action which we took in withdrawing cannot be so bad in its consequences as pur continuation in the league another year would almost necessarily have been. If worst comes to worst under the present circumstances, our condition will still remain better than before our withdrawal. It is foolish to harbor the fear that we may not have antagonists in the future, even if we remain outside every league. Neither Yale nor Princeton can afford to refuse to contest with us, and Yale, certainly, would prefer to play with Harvard...
...meagre education which he gained mostly from travel; his mother was quite different, for she was a woman of broad intellect and a kind heart, and seemed to the young poet more like a companion than a mother. When only ten years old Goethe wrote Latin correctly, and while still a child delighted in entertaining his youthful mates with strange stories. In 1765 he went to Leipsig to study law. He found poetry, however, more interesting, and returned to Frankfort, but afterward completed his legal education at Strasburg. With his entering into Strasburg came the beginning of his intellectual wakening...