Word: thinge
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Were it the proper thing to pour...
...Classics, for instance, may be, he has at least a foundation to stand upon. Not so in German. Here every new instructor has, or thinks he has, for a year or more to undo the work of his predecessor; for another year to try his own experiments; and any thing like a system is adopted only after he has had a course or a class for at least two years. This is, in substance, the history of German instruction in Harvard. And precisely herein is found the explanation why comparatively so little German is learned at College, though so much...
...Harvard press, now crying out against an abuse already ended, and now giving a decided opinion on a question already settled. This character it has put off once for all. It is now the aggressive champion of the Bursar, New London, College Poetry, the Echo, and any other thing under the sun which has, or fancies it has, received a slight from the Crimson. We do not know how to reconcile ourselves to the new order of things. What can we do without the calm, monotonous pleasure of a fortnightly Advocate? Henceforth we must seek relief from the Crimson...
...malicious usurpation of authority. Unfortunately, too, his previous reputation for lack of civility was such as to raise every presumption against him. That the Bursar is an official of the College but makes the indignity the more to be censured. For a private individual who did such a thing would simply be despised for his ill-breeding; whereas, in an official, few things are more culpable than an overstepping of his powers, either through ignorance or perversity, or than a gross violation of official decorum. Of one of these offences the Bursar is guilty. Will he try to clear himself...
...thing not human. Thus...