Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spotless tennis suit, strolled nonchalantly down the hotel piazza and joined a group of young men and maidens sitting in the sun. His girl was among them. She was sitting on the railing holding on to a post. Diggles wished he were a post, but he soon banished the thought as unworthy of him. Patting on his most winsome smile he proposed an expedition to a neighboring sawmill. Ah, who could have foreseen the consequence of this little trip? But Diggles was a deep, deep...
...similar treatment could probably be found, a considerable liberty of choice could be given. We think that the adoption of some of the above suggestions would add greatly to the convenience of students and to the success of many courses of instruction; but even should none of them be thought worth consideration we earnestly hope the subject of lessening the evils of one-hour courses may receive early and careful attention...
...thought it, you rogue! Lovely beyond compare...
...have always thought that we had reason to congratulate ourselves on the uniform courtesy of our instructors, but an instance of rudeness has recently become known to us, which, in our opinion, needs criticism. A student who had been prevented from attending recitations on account of sickness, on his return asked the instructor to tell him the amount of work done by the class in his absence. The instructor declined in a way that, impolite in itself, was rendered doubly so by his peevish manner. An instructor must understand that it lies entirely with himself to gain the respect...
CAMBRIDGE is no more than twelve miles from Concord, and yet there are students in Harvard College to whom New England thought is almost utterly foreign. The University is, of course, more or less cosmopolitan, and the Westerner tramples consecrated soil for perhaps a year and a half before he takes cognizance of the original thinkers whom it has nourished. I confess to a feeling of exasperation when one of these untutored minds propounds a view of life, or gives an estimate of character, without recognizing in any way the verdict of New England cultivation. Yet, although his lack...