Word: talking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...humility. Each man, and particularly each woman, feels called upon to assume a prominence in proportion to his own estimation of his powers; but this of course does away with some of the most necessary and most fundamental laws of our social system. For if you wish to talk, you must have some one to talk to; but here they all talk. If you wish for sympathy, you must have some one to sympathize with you; here they all wish for sympathy. If you wish to be loved, you must have some one to love you; but here they...
...department of table-talk, appearing with every issue, and fancifully named "Limon," are many interesting anecdotes and old-fashioned witticisms. "The usual time of the year in which the Roman youth assumed the toga virilis, or man's apparel," says the writer, "was when they first attended the feasts of Bacchus. Do the youth of modern days never attend the feasts of Bacchus before they have assumed the Toga Virilis?" An apothegm on "Hasty Writers" (transformed by some malicious reader before me to "Hasty-Pudding Writers!") is quoted here: "Little writers compose books apace; for naturalists observe that the less...
...athletic spirit seems to be awakening and gives promise of interesting results. At a college meeting last evening it was voted to send representatives to the meeting at the polo grounds in New York, and there is some talk of having a spring meeting here...
...learn from an esteemed contemporary that "there is talk of changing the college colors at Harvard...
...obtain the cup it will not be for lack of trying. Our gymnasium presents a very animated scene, and our athletes are beginning to put in some hard work. The athletic accounts in the HERALD have been read with much interest lately, and those who were wont to talk of "waggling Harvard at Mott Haven" have toned down considerably...