Word: things
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...might truly be said, in a negative sort of way, that the only thing of interest about the Medical School for the last three weeks, has been the utter absence of everything of interest. Almost nothing breaks the monotonous succession of lectures, recitations, conferences, clinics, and demonstrations. Coming events certainly do cast their shadows before, and the distant shades of the coming Final Examinations are already spurring every member of every class to steady and hard work...
...each science, but of its importance to the human race. It has the same refining effect as travel, since it brings one in contact with the rest of the world, and so we can make comparisons and from these comparisons form correct estimates of the bearing of one thing upon another...
...almost destroyed by the time and weather, but enough still remain to show us that the marbles were figured in the most delicate manner. In many places, however, the figures are almost intact, and there the beautiful outlines serve to show the skill of the sculptors. The most remarkable thing to be noticed about the Marbles throughout the Parthnon is the carefulness with which the sculptors completed their work in every part. It made no difference to them whether a part of the figures was to be covered and never seen by the people they took as much pains...
...graduates of the Academy is called for this evening, and we hope that the notice of this meeting has met the eye of every Andover man in Harvard. It is not necessary again to go over the reasons why the organization of such a club will prove a good thing for both Harvard and Andover; we have already spoken editorially of these. We hope, too, that it is not necessary to urge every Andover man to attend the meeting and take hold of the plan with a vigor which will insure its speedy consummation. It would indeed be a strange...
...tastes of young men who graduate, as the low esteem in which they hold the professor-that is, the small importance they attach to their opinions about everything relating to the conduct of life-everything, in short, outside the special subject which the professor teaches. It is a rare thing to find a graduate of one of our leading colleges who has brought away any respect for the faculty in any character but that of men of learning. As men of the world, or as social or moral philosophers, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that he contemns them...