Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...world regret them...
...reader will do, and through him giving expression to the choicest bits of learning and wisdom which he had himself acquired throughout his long, busy, and thoughtful life. There is a picture in Punch of a little girl, discovering that her doll is stuffed with sawdust, exclaiming that the world is hollow and that she wants to be a nun. So Kenelm Chillingly very early in life discovers that everything is vanity or humbug, and falls into that cynicism of the nobler sort, - possible only in a generous disposition, - which despises not men, but only what is mean and false...
...grin and bear it." "If, however, their principle of selection is declared right, and Amherst and Harvard still refuse to row, as no other college has entered a crew, the Yale Freshman will stand a pretty good chance of coming in ahead." Yes, neighbor Courant, and the boating world would never hear the last of the glorious victory achieved, against the most frightful odds, by the stout Yale Freshman at Springfield...
...better, though we are conscious of it only when the remembrance of some mood or some train of thought of a year ago contrasts it with our present position? If we have not gained much positive knowledge, we have at least got a broader and deeper view of the world without us and within...
...courteous a manner by the Editors of the Advocate that we feel sure that the present state of feeling will long continue. Should any change of policy, in this regard, be effected at some future time, both journals will surely feel the contempt of the whole college world. Once more thanking our readers, we wish them a most pleasant vacation...