Word: things
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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According to the Boston Traveller, the most notable thing about Mr. Barrett Wendell's new book is its absolute purity of language...
...business." This is, we believe, contrary to the opinion that prevails among men of average education, not college graduates; but it appears to us to contain a vast truth, and it is probable that public sentiment is being gradually modified in this direction. It has been a common thing for men of means to refuse to send their sons to college on the ground that they were going into business, where, according to their view, a college education would be worse than useless. If there were anything connected with any kind of business which called for dull wits...
...must have cost many a real pang to the lovers of all that is historical and to the admirers of the eminent poet, Oliver Wendell Holmes; but, notwithstanding, it had to be made. Architectural effect, modern improvement, in a word, progress, know no sentiment, and never ask what a thing has been but what it is. To the builders and designers of the Law School (Austin Hall) the Holmes house was an obstruction, an eye-sore; and, therefore, the Holmes house had to go. Yet, it must be confessed, the building of Austin Hall was unquestionably the most prominent improvement...
...admit that is a fine thing to be a thorough classical scholar that it is no small honor to lead one's class in mathematics, that the student who enters heartily into the Natural Sciences will be repaid by the pleasure he receives; but we honestly believe that the one who, if need be, neglects any of these things a little that he may learn better to express his thoughts and his voice, will be better prepared for whatever practical work may come to him in the future, and, therefore, it seems to us that elocution should at least...
...flying rings have to stand aside. In fact, there is so very little room anywhere that pneumatic machines have to be used by the oarsmen, instead of hydraulic. The air is noisome and damp, and the room is unpleasantly dark. Having jotted these things down mentally, we turned to go; and the last thing that sang in our ears was the voice of the stroke saying,-"Ready deah boys, eye-glasses in place, row her fahst now, there's a Hahvahrd man looking...