Word: things
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Till Lumbago says, "Sir, that is a thing...
...philanthropic gentleman does not try to cultivate our taste for art by thrusting upon us poor engravings and cheap chromos; or that some gentleman, fresh from the Divinity School, and with its odor of sanctity about him, does not try to sell us a book which is the very thing to turn the hardened student from his evil ways, and give him the true view of life. The disappointment they show when refused can surely result from nothing but their sorrow at our blindness to our own interests, and is enough to make a tenderhearted man repent and invest...
...another thing which would repay revival here is the game of chess. There are many here who play the game more or less, and some who play it well. But it is most often the case that these persons do not know each other as chess-players; and even if they do, a few desultory games are usually the sole result. Chess clubs have existed here in the past; why should they not be revived now with our other associations? It would bring together those who already play chess, and would encourage others to study the game, which...
...exclusion of others who, when weighed by real merit, would be more entitled to the privilege and honor. There is far too much of this politic seeking for popularity in college; the methods are many, and the results various. Popularity which is sought after and courted is a dangerous thing, and though it may bewilder for the moment, like the ignis fatui, it leads on in a sort of shadow dance without any culminating force. Your popular, because politic, man in college seldom becomes the really popular and praiseworthy citizen, the beloved minister, the trusted and honest lawyer...
...thing was needed to make him perfect, he must be proved to be the perpetrator of crimes, - and that was done; he had been the leader of a band of robbers, everybody asked him to dinner; he had been accused of murder, his reputation was established. His poetry, which was by no means bad, found its way across the water, where he was received by John Bull as a new phenomenon of American life. Meanwhile, the critics were as kind as they could have been if bribed; they occupied themselves more harmlessly than ever before or since, - they sorted...