Word: things
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...HOMES OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR.It is one thing to teach good grammar, and another thing to speak it. The President of one of our New England colleges, in a lecture delivered in this city last Sunday, said : "Here then is the consequences in the worst possible form of it." And again : "Not only is this so manifested as that philosophers see it." He also spoke of India as "a province that is not profitable except there shall be the cultivation of opinion." He was probably in a condition similar to that of the actor who knew his part so well that...
...Choate was the first speaker. In the course of his remarks he managed to make a hit at almost every thing connected with the university. His speech was greeted with much applause and laughter. Mr. Choate also mentioned the receipt of a proposition by Samuel J. Bridge of Boston to present a bronze statue of John Harvard to be erected at the head of the Delta. President Eliot, who spoke next, referred to the fund raised to increase the salary of the president and various other gifts of the past year. He also spoke in the highest terms...
...longer. If men do not care to study themselves, at least common courtesy ought to keep them from greatly annoying those who are compelled to work. A little reflection must show any one who has been rude enough to create a disturbance that he has done a most unjust thing, and will, we sincerely trust, lead him to cease hereafter...
...serve, and share in its tastes, habits and standards. The German professor cares little about money, because plain living is the rule not simply of his own class but of the official and professional class - that is, of the best society throughout Germany. In other words, it is "the thing" to be poor, and live as if you were poor, in Germany. The military and civil officers who form the flower of German society are poorly paid, and, not only make no attempt at display, but look on display or luxury as vulgar. They get the consideration which they enjoy...
...fact, poverty and very plain living are things which, as has been wittily observed about mariages de raison everybody thinks good for other people, but which hardly anybody thinks good for himself. It does not follow from all this that a life of luxury or of devotion to money-getting is good for professors any more than for other people. There is a measure in salaries and in money-getting, as in every thing else. Man was intended to be a moderate animal. But it does not follow from it that it is in our time and in our country...