Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...follows: In early life he decided to go to college; goes to the academy or high school to prepare; his one object in life is to get into college; he passes the entrance examinations, and judges that he is in the seventh heaven; four years seem such a long time that he never thinks of looking beyond; he gives himself up wholly to college life; he becomes careless and unmethodical; he has not the faintest idea of what business habits are; he is utterly unable to keep an account of his own expenses; he fails to make any distinction between...
...pursuits; and then, however cruel Fortune may be to us hereafter, she can never rob us of the pleasant memory of our stay there, and this surely will make up for many hardships. These are ample returns for becoming a trifle impractical by going through college. But for the time being I find, in the book before quoted, a consolation of the dum vivimus vivamus sort, which I offer as a comfort to any Senior who is sorrowing that he must so soon depart this collegiate life: "Happy Senior! enjoy these your halcyon days while you may; for great will...
...ever amused yourself by comparing your own countrymen with the rest of the world, you will no doubt have found that the American is the most one-sided being on earth. If he is a man of business, he is a man of business and nothing more; his whole time, as well as his whole mind, is filled with his means of livelihood, and he cannot spare a moment for anything not connected with money-making. If he is a man of leisure, and, as rarely happens, has nothing to do, he consistently does, thinks, and accomplishes absolutely nothing...
...same time my powers of conversation were utterly insufficient to induce them to talk intelligently upon any subject that I could think of, other than college matters. And, as a matter of course, they resented the slightest difference of opinion, or, if they happened to be particularly amiable, they mercifully attributed it to the senile idiocy incident to my advanced years...
...greatest glories. A number of men who live beyond the Ohio are induced to come to Cambridge, in preference to any other Eastern college, on account of this advantage. It would be decidedly inconsistent suddenly to withdraw an inducement held out to these men, at a time when another enticing scheme to draw them hither is but getting under way. We have no doubt that a week taken from the summer vacation would have a decided and baneful effect upon the experiment of the Cincinnati examinations. By turning to President Eliot's last report (p. 11), the policy...