Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...impatiently I bide the time...
...same time, as I said before, you will find the moral tone of your surroundings very different from tone of your home. You will hear things said and see things done, which you have always been taught to regard-with holy horror. For example, I will speak of drunkenness. I am familiar enough with the views of your mother and of your great-aunt Lucretia upon this matter to know that you, who have passed a good portion of your life in the society of those ladies, went to college with an idea that a man who had ever succumbed...
...time is overdue...
...from this year you will become a man of the world. And one of the first lessons which you must learn is that a man of the world is never intolerant. To use an old definition of mine, he is never surprised and never shocked. At the same time, while he recognizes the existence of all sorts of evils, great and small, there is no reason why he should take part in them. He ought to retain as firmly as ever the principles which guide his-own conduct; but he ought so far to conquer his aversion to any particular...
...that the delegates wanted "some more noted college" to lend a little prestige to the affair." Therefore they "proceeded to attitudinize in a peculiarly enticing manner before Harvard." "But Harvard had acquired considerable sagacity in its adversity, and probably remembering another (Association' to which it belonged once upon a time, and the forlorn hope it was compelled to lead there by some precocious 'Western upstarts,' it politely declined the proffered honor." We are not called upon to defend ourselves from insinuations of this sort, even when they are thrown out by a paper which has for a motto, "Above...