Word: think
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fire and while away the last few minutes before the striking of the midnight clock in fanciful speculations for the morrow and in serious retrospect of the day spent. If I do not derive some benefit, at least, from these ruminations, it at any rate seldom happens that I think to-night on the subject of last night; but since this cold weather has set in, my thoughts hitch each time on the same point. I invariably dwell upon the temperature of my room, and find myself repeating again and again those expressions of discontent that are apt to proceed...
...sensible enough to keep it to themselves when it is not asked for. And this blessed few, when they find themselves in a company where shop must perforce be talked, are willing to talk your shop instead of their own. To mention names would be invidious, but I think that you will remember one or two people of this sort. And you ought to make it your business to imitate them...
...Hollis fire an officer of the College was heard to remark: "This is quite remarkable; we thought we were safe from fire." That occasion has demonstrated that we are not more safe from it than the rest of the human race, and it is therefore high time to think of rendering such a misfortune as little dangerous to life as possible...
Great Caesar's ghost! "The debts and liabilities of members of the Universities arranged for them, or settled." Think of this! Debts may be contracted to any amount, and a philanthropist is at hand to "arrange" them, or, if more convenient, to entirely relieve you of the disagreeable necessity of settling them. We are inclined to think that if such an obliging person opened his "Private Banking-House" in Cambridge, we should hereafter deny ourselves no luxury. Of the two plans of removing the incumbrances, the latter is the only one to be considered. Why bother to have your debts...
...doubted; but the repeated evidence of the aforesaid examining committee shows that this is not true of Greek alone, but of all purely literary studies, English not excepted. This is due partly to the great scientific advances made during the last few years, and partly, as some of us think, to certain defects in the general tone and administration of the college...