Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...children are growing up to be more supercilious than their father. They are still more cold and haughty. They smile at the people as they pass by to the church and say 'How foolish! We are the only wise ones of the earth.' They have no regard for any but the few that are like them, and they are few indeed...
...around. When, however, we were asked if we had visited Wellesley, our invariable answer was "No;" but we always added that we had friends there, and had been invited out, but had never cared to go. We then, thought this was a wise answer, but now we see how foolish it must have seemed to those who heard it. We now seriously assert that no man's education is complete without his having visited Wellesley at least once, and if he once goes there, he cannot help going again...
...Bartlett had to change his creed, making it read-"We believe in the government by the students, subject to the advice and approval of the faculty?" It is needless to say that it would be an awful descent. But, then, some mountains will be steep; and men who are foolish enough to climb them, must come down sooner or later. The descent may be even rapid and ungraceful, but still it is often politic...
...never feel guilty or penitent. It is as hard to argue us out of the consciousness of guilt, as it is to argue us into the consciousness of real desert: for while virtue is too wise and humble to claim any merit, sin is so proud and foolish that it will be always bragging...
There is a spirit of childishness lurking somewhere in Harvard, that is doing its best to bring discredit upon her. Its presence was first indicated this year, by the defacing of the Harvard statue and the chapel; its last exhibition has been even more foolish and dangerous. While England is being terrified by dynamite explosions, some men seized upon the idea that a little sensation of the kind would be interesting here. Accordingly, last week, a large cannon cracker was fired off at midnight in front of Matthews. As this did not produce the desired effect, another one was tied...