Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...microscopic, hypercritical examination of the "Vanity of Human Wishes." When it is remembered that the course meets but once a week, the expenditure of valuable time can be realized. English VII. is essentially, and, to be successful, must necessarily be made a lecture course. Its rare meeting, the vast amount of work to be accomplished in it, and the great size of the section demand this. When three weeks are given to one short poem of Johnson in a course which both in recitation and examination neglects the works of Addison through a lack of time, that poem should possess...
...preacher, it is a prophet, it is a stern moralist, it is a ghastly buffoon, it is a broken-hearted recording angel. Like some horrible ghoul, grinning and gibbering forever amid its dark mysteries, it stretches out awful hands to the wretched and the despairing throughout the vast, throbbing city, and whispers: "Come to me, come to me!" and they hear and shudder and turn cold at heart, and-come...
...Christmas Eve. The company assemble in the college hall about nine o'clock in the evening, and the choir at once proceed to sing part of Handel's "Messiah." Soon after ten o'clock, a short interval is allowed for supper, during which the little candles on the vast Christmas tree are lighted; and then, the gas being turned down, the choir commence singing Christmas carols, until the great bell in the tower booms out the hour of twelve, when Pergolesi's "Gloria in Excelsis" is sung, and the Vice-President bids you a Merry Christmas. The whole scene...
...competitive examination, thus giving the sons of the poorest and humblest men in the country a fair chance of filling places in the government service, which had previously been reserved for the younger sons of the gentry with such rigor that John Bright once called that service "a vast system of out-door relief for the British aristocracy." Indeed, it was said that "in England the opening of the civil and military service, in its influence upon the national education, was equivalent to a hundred thousand scholarships and exhibitions of the most valuable kind...
...have of meeting fellows from all parts of our country. Not only is it pleasant, but also it serves to awaken us to the realization that the universe is not centred around any one place, be it in New York, in Boston, in San Francisco, but it is one vast organization which will continue to exist, even of some of those parts which seem to us the most vital are lopped off. We enjoy some of the benefits of travel, even while anchored in one place. We meet fellows from all parts of the country who differ from each other...