Word: wente
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much for examples of approximations to the ideal. Now what can be done by individuals to help towards the attainment of the ideal? After a few suggestions about the training of personal character for the benefit of society, the lecturer went on to discuss the social tendencies that help and that hinder the realization of this organic ideal. Conservatism, the lecturer thought, is often a direct help to progress, because conservatism insists that progress shall be rationally comprehensible, and so organized. Conservatism represents the tendency to think new experiences in old forms, and so to continue definite habits of thought...
...heard lectures for a minimum of three years, he is allowed to apply for permission to "make an examination." It is seldom that any one tries the ordeal in a shorter time, six semesters being the ordinary university course. A friend of the writer, an American, however, went up for examination at the end of his third semester in Berlin, in Physics, and what is more, he passed the examination and received his degree of Ph. D. This case may be taken as showing what is possible, but it is an occurrence seldom recorded...
...passed six years ago the effect upon the country was much the same as though a cage of wild animals had been set down in the streets of some populous city. At first timid people were anxious, fearing the consequences if the cage should break, but as time went on and nothing happened, quiet was restored. Now, however, when notice has been given that the balances of the government in the N. Y. Clearing House must soon be paid in silver, the people are as anxious as if the cage had broken and the animals had been turned loose upon...
...Rochester caterer, Teal by name, had been engaged by '87 to prepare their banquet in Ithaca itself. A sophomore went to him in person, and persuaded Teal that he was a freshman. Teal was ordered to change the place of banqueting to a village named Tremansburg, because, as the '86 men said, there was danger in Ithaca from sophomores. More, other sophomores hired the Opera house at Tremeansburg and a minstrel troupe and brass band to act as waiters. When Friday morning came, Teal, acting on instructions, telegraphed to the real freshmen that he had missed the train and would...
...squarely for their spree. But while this bright and clever set of fellows were enjoying the fun, the hapless freshmen were in disappear. When the train at 9 did not bring them any signs of their long-expected supper they saw clearly that all was not right. A few went to Tremansburg, but could do nothing, so they had all their pains for nothing. Most of them took the joke for what it was worth and made the best of their unhappy situation...