Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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INSTRUCTOR in Optics: "Yes, gentlemen, you may experience this curious phenomenon of seeing double by gazing fixedly at any object for a short time. I myself have frequently observed double lampposts." Class woods up. (Fact...
...number of men who carry their hero-worship to such an extent is happily small. But although Gosling is not often seen at Harvard, he does exist here. We all know him. He is not an imaginary phenomenon, but real flesh and blood. To use a milder and perhaps more applicable illustration than the former one, he is the man who, though he has a short neck, must needs make himself ugly and very miserable by wearing a high collar, because Swellington, who has a long neck, can wear such a collar comfortably and to advantage...
Even if there is a person in college corresponding to the imaginary "Gosling," - a phenomenon whose real existence one is inclined to question, - he will never become popular by pursuing the policy suggested by this social critic. The man who will make a fool of himself because "Swellington" does, and will then "brag about it for the rest of the year," cannot be familiar with the ways and means of social preferment...
...university library ought to have books that a scholar will need, whatever line of study he may be pursuing. The works of Abu-1-Fazl and Mirza-Shafi, and the Arabic grammar of Muhammad bin Daud may not be of interest to the man of "general culture," - a phenomenon of which Harvard College, it is gratifying to know, is growing suspicious, - but they will certainly prove useful to the student of Turkish literature, and will be valuable to a scholar who intends travelling in the East...
That man must be very illogical or sophistical who intentionally twists another's words from their original meaning, draws false inferences, and then denies the existence of that phenomenon, the independent man, of which he seems to be a very example...