Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this issue, one cannot help wishing that the ballad by Mr. Houghton had been inspired by a more optimistic view. The beauty of these verses is not heightened, at all events, by the gloomy theme. The other poems are graceful, but on the whole not characterized by forcible thought. The ideal portrayed by Mr. Fullerton is applicable to poetry as well as to novels...
...great an interest is taken, at the present time, in the various N. H. courses, and as several of these courses have a more or less elaborate system of laboratory work with the microscope, it was thought that a brief sketch of the instrument and its possibilities would be acceptable...
...seen the beautiful and expensive experiments in freshman chemistry, the thought would seem absurd that the authorities could possibly fail to vote sufficient appropriations for the scientific departments of the university. Yet the appropriation for carrying on work in the physical laboratory is unreasonably inadequate to the demand made on it. Although we possess one of the finest physical laboratories in the world, the appropriation this year for carrying on the work was only a few hundred dollars. In the study of physics delicate and accurate instruments are absolutely necessary. Many instruments in the laboratory are in so wretched...
...Thoughts of some dire calamity at once seized every mind, and more than one dignified senior was about to hurry for the scene of an imagined disaster, when, as a flash from the dying embers of the enthusiastic fire of his freshman days, came this happy thought, and his heart was put at rest. It was Thursday noon and these were freshmen eager for their fill of chemistry and fireworks...
...lack of principle in their correspondence may be due to mere thought-lessness. Let us so regard it for the present. If, however, no improvement is seen hereafter, then charity can serve no longer as a cloak for this evil...