Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...name was such a curious compound of commercial Americanism, Hebrew blue-blood, and Latin aristocracy, and the name of his native place, Saug Centre, was so picturesque, while, moreover, I had thought so much about that line of words in the catalogue, that I so breathed into them an individuality, a soul, that Benjamin Emilius became one of my daily companions during those last autumn days when the leaves fall and the bursar rejoices in a fresh opportunity to answer numerous and voluminous questions with that laconic brevity so characteristic of that functionary...
...sentimental platitudes that we feel a strong desire to respond in more direct language. The literature, says the Edinburgh Review, that issues from a college is one of the surest exponents of its character and inner life. Had the good, charitable man who was so ready to condemn Harvard thought of this, and had he ever taken the trouble to glance at some college papers, he would have at least somewhat moderated his statements. We make bold to say that upon careful examination we have noticed that the papers of co-educational colleges almost universally possess a spirit of freedom...
...Yale launch in her trial trip made about 12 4-5 miles per hour, and is thought to be perfectly satisfactory in every...
...Memorial are perfectly ludicrous. It is silly to suppose that men would for an instant so far forget their self-respect as to drink to excess. The use of ale or beer is a time-honored and a cherished custom of English commons, where no one has ever thought of any evil being attendant upon...
...loves and hates, he assembles at the hour when mind and body crave repose, and proceeds, in various and unstudied ways, to replenish exhausted resources, mental or physical. Pliny says, somewhere, of the Greeks, that it is their distinctive quality to hide nothing, and this quality, it is thought, is what gave the Greeks that "grand simplicity," which makes them, for all time, masters in the realm...