Word: talking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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James Russell Lowell, Minister to the Court of St. James, has voluntarily resigned the position of Lord Rector of St. Andrews' University. Mr. Lowell has taken this step in the hopes of stopping all further talk as to his eligibility and of freeing the government from any trouble on the subject...
...their work. The care of the bodily health is of the first importance. More educated men fail of distinction through the want of bodily vigor than from any other cause. The high prizes in any of the professions are not to be won without exhausting labor. We hear much talk about genius. All this is very well in its way, but the most practical definition of genius is, extraordinary capacity for labor. No world-wide greatness was ever achieved except where there has been a prodigious capacity for work...
...tomes in which the lore of old Hellas was entombed, many of whose graces and beauties were visible to no eye within the academic shades as they were to his. Reserved and uncommunicative as a recluse, he had a few chosen friends with whom he loved to talk of his favorite studies. About the college grounds he moved shyly, as if trying to avoid recognition or the necessity of recognizing others. In the class-room he was somewhat grim, and chary of the lore at his command. He was rather an instructor of scholars than of students, and his vast...
...floor, declared for non-interference and said the whole tendency of the college administration was away from the theory of paternal government. Mr. John Codman, '85, defended the Harvard eleven from the charge of the affirmative that they had gone to Princeton with blood-thirsty intentions. The only violent talk comes from a few men not on the eleven nor truly in sympathy with it. Mr. C. R. Saunders, '84, pointed out the essential difference between civil and faculty government in the simile brought up by he negative. The faculty were not trying to hamper legitimate athletics, but simply...
...talk to me about the advantages of an education !" indignantly exclaimed a certain manufacturer lately. "Here I spent $4,000 on that boy of mine. He came out of college with flying colors. I put him in charge of the factory while I went off for a little vacation, and what do you suppose he did? Shipped to South America 50,000 of my new patent snow shovels...