Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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I sat by his bed through that evening; the poor creature fitfully snoozed;
While daintily picking a pathway through the mud and the ice and the snow;
And his limbs slightly shook with emotion as he passed on his way through the "Yard."
When suddenly, with a wild gesture, he vanished from sight through the door.
As long as these things are so, the student may study conscientiously, but his study will be a task. He may pore over the pages of his classics in the prescribed manner, but he will rise from his labor with no notion of the grandeur of the work which he...