Word: written
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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DEAR - : I really should have written to you before, if I had had any idea that you cared to hear from me. I am grieved to learn that you are having such a "glorious" time. The pursuit of happiness in this world is so fatally sure to end in bitter disappointment, that any transient glimpse of it which we may obtain only serves to make the final catastrophe less bearable. The great object in life - or rather of existence, for even our few moments of reasoning existence hardly deserve the name of life - I take to be somewhat as follows...
...have received a carefully written article on the Library, stating some disadvantages of the present system. It is urged that the facilities for procuring books are inadequate, and that much valuable time is wasted while waiting for them. It is true that sometimes delays occur when many want to be served at once, but the Library is as free from this inconvenience as any large library anywhere. The shelves obviate the difficulty in the case of those books most frequently consulted, and the rapid growth of our Library, requiring many to be employed in cataloguing new books, somewhat reduces those...
...have a thorough knowledge of the question before them, very few possess sufficient power of abstraction to give, when thus disturbed, a clear and succinct answer. Some of the details always escape them; and when they are assured that their rank for the year will depend mainly upon these written recitations, they cannot but feel that it is unjust to compel them to write under circumstances so unfavorable for testing their knowledge of the subject...
...written examinations are necessary, then let us have an hour, or some part of an hour, given entirely up to them, as thus the instructor would be more just both to himself and to those he professes to instruct. The only possible reason we can discover for thus mingling together examination, lecture, and oral and written recitations in one short and distracted hour is the trouble of looking over so many blue books, which an hour's examination of the whole division would require; but we think there are few instructors who would thus allow the love for their...
...seem to pretend to greater ability and ingenuity than I possess, let me declare at once that the conception of what I am about to present was not wholly original with me. Great men suggested the idea, and great moralists have done much to encourage it. De Quincy has written an essay on "Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts." "The Prayse of Ignorance" was one of Tom Hood's "Whims...