Word: worlding
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...world is turning...
...receive a new impetus, the funny men can get up a "corner" on jokes, the light and heavy prose men can "bull" or "bear" their respective productions, while the poets can derive more fire from the others' fervor. But why stop here, and thus deprive the rest of the world of this feast of reason? Now that the project is set on foot, let it be expanded till it takes in the editors of all college papers everywhere. Even this will not be enough, we fear. No editor of any kind will be satisfied till he receives an invitation...
...late, however, the system has been gradually changing. Literary Ruskins have begun to turn their attention to the education of the classic world, to revolutionize the old system of reading and enjoying works of ancient genius, to replace it by their new method of parsing and dissecting them...
...instruction now practised in the college, a man may pass through his entire course, under the complete dominance of other minds, and while obtaining oftentimes good rank, still never have experienced a sense of personal responsibility or manhood, or had a really sensible thought about his future. Measuring the world by the college standards, they naturally make false estimates of its requirements; not considering that any results obtained here are really insignificant except in so far as they prepare for what is to come...
...their four years awakens such men from a contemplation of their own remarkable abilities, to contend with a world which will handle them without gloves, and of which they are absolutely ignorant. Men intending to enter any active pursuit, to attain success in which will require all their time and powers, will probably never have more time at their disposal than here; and yet how few ever think of doing any of that general reading, without a knowledge of which no man can be said to be truly cultivated, not to say educated. To how many is our library merely...