Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...forty men from college does not differ much from another such company; both have the same light heartedness, both enjoy the same things, both live in much the same way. Yet in the details of these trips-and the details really give them their local character-there is a vast difference. The following then, will be a sort of elaborated itinerary of a journey of about twenty nine hundred miles, with special attention to the points in which this journey differs from others of the same kind...
...become nothing but a name. To seniors the six months of college life that remain are but a short time to finish the work for which four years have been devoted, - four years that at the best have been short. To the freshman, unconscious and heedless of the vast field of opportunities spread before him four years seem a long period, but to the senior who has learned by experience those opportunities and who, looking back on them, sees where he has improved them and where he has let them pass, the time seems very short. After all, four years...
...never made a success in war or politics, and naturally their poems would not be didactic or ethical. They have no humor about their poems, but in all these there is a one of sadness always prevalent and generally distinct. As the great nation was pushed back from its vast empire, and again and again suffered defeat, their spirit was not broken, but their despondence is everywhere to be seen...
...Annexation would be a political disadvantage to the United States. - (a) Majority of Canadians could not be loyal to a strange form of government: Forum IX, 562, - (b) A Canadian faction would be introduced into Congress; Forum, VI, 458, IX, 562. - (c) management of the vast-territory would be too much for a government already overcrowded with work...
...entirely useless I should like to offer some suggestions to the base ball management with regard to the accomodation of the vast throng that will gather on Holmes Field on the 23rd to witness the Yale-Harvard game, and especially the holders of reserved seats in sections N, O, and P. It seems it would be eminently proper for the management to expend some money on those seats and put up backs so as to make them as comfortable as the seats in the other sections, the price being the same and certainly sufficiently large to justify this slight improvement...