Word: content
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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They breathe such sweet content. And yet the sight...
...half their spirit. It would seem, then, very undesirable to exclude them; and the exclusion might easily be avoided by a less fundamental change in the character of the exercises. The rush, in fact, might be abolished. The four classes might gather and cheer each other to their hearts' content; the union of the students might be as strong as ever; while the rushing rings, the bad hats, the squabbles, and the trophies of old Class Day might be allowed to lapse with mock parts, required studies, and class feeling into the memories of the past...
...students are not of opinion that if the grade of food were higher their health and comfort would be greatly improved; but there is no way of deciding such a question, and therefore, out of deference to the necessities of the few, the many are obliged to be content with inferior food, unless they are willing to pay at a private house a price which shall not only give them good food but also insure a fair profit to the keeper of the boarding-house. If the price of food were raised to $5.50 or $6, those who are contented...
EVERY age has its humorists and wits, and the depth of their humor is no doubtful index to the literary attainments of its thinking minds. While one epoch jests like a Touchstone, another is content with nothing less than a Sheridan, and the age itself is clownish or witty accordingly. To those who have scanned most eagerly the literary horizon of our own age for the predicted rise of its great facetious luminary, the meteor-like appearance of Henry C. Carey* among its most brilliant stars came with all the surprise that the greatness of the event demands; and every...
...point a review; but I cannot leave unnoticed the graceful way in which the editor, after flourishing the laurel crown of social science before the envious eyes of all past and present greatness, has finally deposited it on the head of modest Henry C. Carey. Not content with this even, the inimitable Kate pedestals her hero and, labelling him "the Newton of Social Science," reluctantly withdraws, that generations yet unborn may have opportunity to do him proper homage...