Word: towards
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...with Revolutionary times. Commerce has destroyed many other places of equal note, and even these are passing away before the demands of trade. The utilitarian spirit of the times, not content with destroying the houses in which some of our forefathers lived, reaches out with an eager hand even toward their last resting-place...
Hearts whose thoughts toward us reach...
...sufficient for the first object named, that of making our students good writers, then why these severe complaints from those who are presumably qualified to make them? But there is even less to be said against the second charge, inasmuch, as far as can be seen, Harvard's policy toward oratory is to bundle it off to oblivion among the other "lost arts," with all possible speed. Unless the Boylston prizes, which we owe to a private individual and not to the College itself, be considered an exception, oratory has here no recognized existence whatever. Thus Mr. Adams is literally...
...subject, while a Yale man can talk fluently about anything that he does or does n't know, is n't it in order to begin a reformation somewhere? And if anywhere, it must be within the College course. The preparatory schools have as yet done little or nothing toward making writers or speakers of those they send out. It belongs, then, to the older institutions to take the lead, bearing in mind that while college graduates are not expected to become demagogues or inordinate office-seekers, they are expected to use their superior education for the greatest good...
...careful study of Freshmen is a most interesting employment; instructive, too, if one be willing to learn truths not always agreeable. A hundred and fifty or two hundred young men and boys, strangers to each other and dissimilar in taste and habit, are thrown together toward the last of September; long before the middle of October, through some mysterious chemical reaction, the Freshman class has begun to be. Lurker and Nightoil and I' Evy still vegetate as individuals, but each has a more important and engrossing existence; he is a Freshman. An undefinable Freshmanhood has obscured all the rest...