Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshmen are requested to take encouragement from the example of Mr. Carnochan last Saturday. "O, wad ye tak' a thought and mend...
...days, and we write the prettiest of verses and the staidest and wisest of editorials, but where can be found a grain of that Attic salt that flavors the pages of the Harvard Register, of 1827, for example! There is to be found the freshness of sophomoric thought in all its glory; ideas and language that never halt; and as for self-consciousness and disingenuousness, not the least in the world; or, if any, of a most simple and taking kind. And if there appears, now and then, a little pedantry and almost "Western" heaviness, did not the discriminating editors...
There is a very noticeable flavor in these Register articles of the style and habits of thought of the English eighteenth century. Perhaps Dr. Holmes acquired his alleged Pope-like style from the practice of his college days in this sort of writing. If we were to quote certain passages from this book credited to their true authors, we fear we should be held for high treason; for what a ludicrous lowering of dignities there would be! If it were to be known that an overseer of Harvard once penned Horatian stanzas of the following sort, where would all authority...
...kinds, candy and Irish; but gimme candy. So are potatoes, but I like sweet potatoes best. My brother Fred, he's at college, says he don't like goodies, but he's stuck up, anyhow, and I heard Miss May tell Miss Archer yesterday that she thought Fred real conceited, there now! But Jenny May, that's Miss May's sister, says she's mashed on Fred. How funny. Jenny's a nice girl, only she will tease a feller about kissing people. Well, I never kissed a girl, - 'd'ruther play marbles. I ain't afraid of girls, though...
...student who has confined his mind to one particular course of study has the better education. The man who leads a mercantile life after graduation has by a liberal education formed, as it were, an index in his mind, to which he can refer. A large field of thought has been opened to him, each separate branch of which he has not pursued to any great degree, but with such slight knowledge as he has gained, he knows where to refer when any subject is under consideration. To the ordinary business man the fields of science, language and fine arts...