Word: transient
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...comers of one or two facts. Fifteen years ago there was no English Department here Professor Child offered several elective courses, I believe, but burdened as he was with themes, could not give the college the full benefit of his scholarship; beside Professor Child there were one or two transient instructors in Rhetoric - transient because at that time the attitude of students toward the study of their own language left little hope in life for the man who undertook to teach them...
...scholastic exercise, the philosophical sonnet, the frothy nothing, and the pessimistic snarl. A great portion of the writing is naturally the direct outcome of affectation, much of the rest from an ambition to shine as a literary light. But here and there at rare intervals we catch a glimmer, transient, it is true, of a pure, new thought, which will not be crowded out, and will in its utterance prove its own intrinsic worth. This, then, we may fairly accept as the basis of Harvard poetry. But what are the poets? Of course we have execrable rhymesters, writers who need...
...strange, however, if in future C's contributors are passed with suspicion. D. sings his little "Willow song," mounts his little pedestal, poses for a moment, and passes away. Such are our poets. They sing to us and we listen in pleased surprise, or transient pain...
...formed by a looped wire terminating in an indicative point, upon which rests a heavy weight, the whole being suspended from a firm support. This, however, has not the advantage of such great delicacy as the mercury cup and is used in the more transient stations of the various surveys...
...been customary in years past for many students who have made no definite arrangements for board to take their meals at Memorial until some other place is found. Consequently at the beginning of every year the hall is crowded by a number of merely transient boarders, while a large number of men who otherwise would remain permanently at the hall are unable to secure seats. The board of directors have endeavored, in a measure, to obviate this difficulty by requiring two weeks notice for withdrawal and granting no allowance for temporary absence until the first of November. Students should remember...