Word: think
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...supposition that "antecedents" is synonymous with "ancestry" is mistaken. In using the former word, I referred to circumstances and not to persons, and I think that even my opponent will allow the value of antecedents of this kind. He will admit that education raises a man above the level of his ignorant fellows; and he will hardly deny that a person who has always been surrounded by cultivated and refined people has a presumptive advantage over one whose life has been passed with the comparatively uneducated classes...
...American humor. While exhibiting a less fertility of imagination than the "Social Science," and perhaps less profundity of obfuscations than the "Intellectual Science," yet, in play of fancy and subtlety of wit, the "Harvard Bible"* is second to no other humorous production of this age. In it we think we find traces of a familiar pen, and recognize, here and there, the touches of a master hand, whose productions are not entirely unknown to the undergraduate world. There is a delightful vein of half-concealed, often completely hidden humor running through the work and coming into view only...
...cannot satisfactorily explain. For instance, we find on page twelve an apparent reference to our modern games with forfeits. "A student who fails to do this forfeits her right to washing for the week." Was that a joke practised in the school or convent where we are led to think that this work originated? Certainly, if anything more than a joke, it points to a drought or a peculiar state of civilization. In another place we see evidence of the influence of some ancient Lister: "Valuables may at any time be deposited with the Assistant Treasurer for safe keeping...
...think, however, that in the instances brought to our notice, thoughtlessness, or ignorance of the real nature of Class Day, has been the cause of this inconsiderateness. We hope that students will view the matter in this light, and do as they would be done by, for they certainly will wish and need similar favors when their own Class Day comes...
...does n't think of them with fright...