Word: wording
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...school. After an interesting and sarcastic sketch of the aristocratic tendencies of the time, the speaker gave a pathetic picture of Gogol's character, illustrating his literary physiognomy by a fine fragment from his "Dead Souls." The new elements brought into literature by Gogol can be expressed in one word: he was the first who made people feel ashamed of life. With Gogol, literature in Russia ceased to be a monopoly of the drawing room, and becomes the property of the nation. It is since Gogol also that Russian literature has ceased to be the property of a country...
...aware that this word of warning against unsystematic exercise may seem uncalled for to many students, and doubtless it is true that to the majority of the men who use the gymnasium it is unnecessary. There is, however, a minority to whom the foregoing remarks apply. Returning now to Dr. Sargent's lectures, we feel that this series of talks will be exceedingly valuable and should be appreciated and taken advantage of by the students...
...well as with the many pretty and clever women whom Johnson had added to the list of his acquaintance. But one of the less known anecdotes of Johnson makes clear what, in spite of success and reputation and the pleasure of being dictator-or, to use Smollett's word, the great Cham of literature-remained a pervading quality of his great, uncouth, impeded man of genius. He asked an old beggar woman, who accosted him once in the street, who she was, and her reply that she was an old struggler gave the doctor keen delight. Johnson...
Precisely similar were the terms on which millions of men labored through centuries to ple up the Persian treasures. It would be mockery to apply the word "industry" to the gold mining of the early ages. Every ounce of gold represented a human life...
...connection with the Graduate School's minute to Professor Peirce, published in today's CRIMSON, may not a member of that school add a word of thanks and praise, to show that there exist in the student body the same feelings of gratitude and affection towards Professor Peirce as are held by his confreres on the Faculty? In some recent trouble, I had occasion for his assistance and advice; and the kindliness and refined sympathy I received were such as one might expect rather from a parent than from a busy college official. I learned from others, moreover, that...