Word: things
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...continue incredulous after such monumental success as this has crowned the four years' effort of the Annex. If such a result had been confined to the experiment entered into with such fear and tremboing at Cambridge, it might be considered something phenomenal out of the natural order of things, and therefore worthy of no particular attention except as a curiosity. But it happens that that same result may be seen wherever women have been admitted to men's colleges. In the few co-educational institutions of the East and the numerous ones of the West the same thing has been...
...record does not stand alone. It is but lately that the papers have been filled with the praises of a novel written by a Dartmouth professor of mathematics. This truly is deplorable. The stage and the novel arrayed as enemies of the college ! That so unheard of a thing as conspicuous talent, as genius should be exhibited by a college professor is enough to shake the very foundations of the learned universe. Prof. Beers, of Yale, also we learn is writing stories for the Century and the Continent; and last of all it is reported that a Columbia professor...
...library was interesting, but tantalizing. We should so much like to explore the contents of those many, many shelves, and our time was so short ! The ancient things collected in the topmost story interested us very much. One thing we noticed was a Greek text-book used by John Dryden, when a school-boy. He had scribbled his name many times over the pages, school-boy fashion, and interspersed Latin hotes in the Greek, to assist his memory. Then there was a copy of Pindar, which had belonged to Milton, and had his notes on the margin written in Greek...
...days when Prof. Moses Stuart Phelps was a graduate student at New Haven he took a walk one morning with Prof. Newton, a man who lives in the world of mathematics and simply exists in the common world of ordinary things. Prof. Newton, as is his habit, started off on the discussion of an abstruse problem. As the Professor went deeper and deeper. Mr. Phelps' mind wandered further and further from what was being said. At last Mr. Phelps' attention was called back to his companion by the Professor's winding up with, "Which, you see, gives us 'X.'" "Does...
...simply because he was a new student, and could not resist. Great was the honor meted out to one who could invent some form of annoyance more offensive or humiliating. No one stopped to look at the question from the other standpoint. No one thought it was an unmanly thing for four or five men to enter a man's room, and knowing him to be powerless to insult him in every way. Such an amusement from some distorted way of looking at it was held quite worthy of gentlemen. So, looking back, it seems indeed to be a source...