Word: ye
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chewing the knuckle of his thumb. On one occasion when he had been lecturing on the relations of good and evil of the world, he was asked by some inquisitive divinity student to explain the origin of evil. Replied the president, with a strong Doric accent: - "Well, ye have asked me a vera deeficult question. All the feelosophers of antiquity have tried their hand at it. Sookrates tried it and failed; Plato did no better. Descarites, Spinoza and Leibnitz were obliged to confess it was too much for them. Kant tried it and made a mess...
...application to English in the primary schools. Going further up the scale, can any one observe the enervated and demoralized state of the average foreigner, after a short struggle with our tongue, without feeling what a terrible thing this language is? No remarks need be made about "ye student and his theme," for they always speak loudly for themselves, yea even profanely sometimes...
...first class day when nearly a quarter of a millenium ago the first class of Harvard graduated and took their leave in a "sober and God-fearing fashion." Those were the strong and sturdy days when Fair Harvard was known as "Charles H's wooden college." when at commencement "Ye General Court of ye Massachusetts Colony did sit down at meat with ye lads to encourage them." In those primitive days the corporation treasury rolled in a maze of "pecks of wheat" and "mellow apples," paid by the people for the support of learning. Those were the halcyon days when...
...corporation having been informed that ye custom taken up in the College, not used in any other Universities, the Comencers to have Plumb-Cake, is dishonorable to ye colledge, not grateful to wise men, and chargeable to ye Parents of ye Comencers; do therefore put an End to that Custom, and do hereby order that no Comencer or other scholar, shall have any Such Cakes in their Studies or Chambers, and that if any Scholar shall offend therein, ye Cakes shall be taken from him, and he shall moreover pay to the College twenty shillings for each and such offence...
...approval. Not that I think money is everything. Sometimes I am told that we are more careful at Cambridge of things intellectual rather than things moral. I am satisfied that there is no better evidence of moral grandeur than that which is shown in intellectual achievements. 'By their fruits ye shall know them,' is a grand moral declaration; gentlemen, you are the fruits of the university...