Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...seems strange that a more purely literary course has not been marked out for honors. To be sure, we have a course for honors in three sets of languages, but we have none for them combined. These courses for honors in languages seem to aim chiefly at memorizing a vast number of words, rather than becoming familiar with the thoughts of the men who used these words as vehicles. It is too much like the school-boy fashion of memorizing the words of two hundred lines per day of the sublimest passages in Virgil, too much like what the poet...
...mathematics have transformed the Freshman year into a vast desert strewed with the horrid skeletons of those who have fallen by the way, there is still one bright little oasis, - classical lectures. There is, however, no need of the contrast to render these lectures so pleasant...
...AMONG the vast multitude of editorial aspirants who are willing to sacrifice themselves upon the altar of college politics, there certainly can be found the required number of men whose intellects are sufficiently free from the trammels of insipidity and general profundity to conduct this highly intelligent organ in a masterly manner. It is about time that these popular fallacies in regard to the qualifications of college editors were swept away." - Cornell...
...life's vast ocean diversely we sail...
...large number of the inhabitants, we should judge some five thousand, were compelled by the Legislature to board together. A vast amount of murmuring was the natural result. Almost every paper speaks of it. The price of the board was extortionate, and the quality was very poor. The meat was sent from the West to Harvard in barrels. From other sources we learn that the meat was bought of a certain landowner or farmer near a place called Fort Sill. Great corruption at one time prevailed in regard to this meat-supply, and one of the highest officials...