Word: thinge
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Immediately Fine Arts suggested itself as the most high-toned thing on which to begin. So I commenced looking around for some favorable investment in this line. Firmly convinced of the truth of the proverb, "Palma non sine argento per vias rectas," my small board fairly burned in my pocket, while I was searching for some good introduction to this unknown land...
...taste so changes that he fails to appreciate the exquisite beauty of chromos, and Dickens's pathos, and prayer-meetings, or in regard to anything else, ceases to be enrapport with bourgeois ideas, he becomes artiste, and a bourgeois-gentilhomme is as much an artiste as anybody. A thing to be noticed in the metamorphosis from bourgeois to artiste is that the change is unnatural and revolutionary. Bourgeois should and do gradually change to gentlemen, as the art-hating, witch-burning society of Massachusetts has become the clientele of the Harvard College of to-day. Unnatural development must...
...trying ordeal, and work as well afterward. It is not fair to say that the man brings this on himself, and unless he had neglected his studies, disregarded the College laws, wasted his time, he would not have incurred it. It is presumable, or what is the same thing, it should be held that a man may come to his senses some day and try to do better, and when working hard in an examination with perhaps a fair chance of being dropped staring him in the face if he fails to do well, the chances are that any sudden...
...Wednesday several Juniors thought it would be a pleasant thing to take the Soldene Troupe out sleighing on Whalley Avenue. A certain classmate heard of it and determined to go them one better. He sent up a card as follows: 'Prof. - would be happy to accompany the ladies about the college grounds, if they are willing.' A Professor was not to be sneezed at, so they 'shot' the boys, who had the pleasure of seeing the 'Prof.' explaining the buildings to the ladies...
...representatives of some of the younger and smaller colleges to pronounce oracularly on the irreproachable nature of this embryo institution; but we can hardly commend that excess of enthusiasm which led them to forget that undergraduates of other colleges were not necessarily boys, and to be guided in a thing of this kind by the mere ipse dixit of any one. It is always unpleasant to discuss the accidents, as they seem to us, of the origin of these literary contests...