Word: armorer
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...first onset somebody knocked off my hat- I thought my head had gone too- I put my hands up, it is my head, still there, thank heaven! But I have no reason to rejoice, for when I left home that night as the last buckle of my armor was being girded on, I heard a voice as if from the depths of Thayer saying, "Return with our plug or without your skull." There was no mistaking it. I had lost the former and retained the latter. I became desperate: a Freshman stands before me with an uninjured prize upon...
...clever satire and bright dialogue, showing Gilbert at his best, and the music also is brisk and catching. Burning with rage and shame King Hildebrand sizes upon Gama, the Princess' father, and declares war against the "girl graduates." The learned maids, true to their theory, array themselves in armor, and aided by Arac and his brethren,-relations of the princess, offer defiance to the opposing army. All ends well, however, and the Princess, giving up philosophical pursuits, consents to marry Prince Hilarion, the opera ending with Tennyson's beautiful lines...
...remains of a Christian Choctaw who came from beyond the Father of Waters to study at Roanoke College. And this year an Indian who also came from beyond the Mississippi goes forth from the college "not in the war paint of the savage warrior, but clad in the armor of the Prince of Peace, a herald of the gospel of love." The patriotic duty of the past century was to drive the Indians across the great rivers to the wild West; the philanthropic duty of today is to receive them into our colleges and schools, and give them...
...English language. It goes without saying that the ability to write one's own language clearly, understandingly and forcibly is the most important of arts, and until Harvard pays as much attention to English as to German, Greek, or Hebrew there will be a terribly vulnerable point in her armor. Other deficiencies might be named, but those above-mentioned, which have to do with the practical side of an education, are the most glaring and the most pernicious...
...crisis of their lives," it says: "But after all, is it a crisis? How much do they really begin life when they sally forth with their diploma in hand? In every valedictory oration which will be delivered the same story is told; 'they have girded on their armor and are going into actual battle;' they 'have served their apprenticeship and are ready to take up the labor of life.' Now, if the battle and labor of life mean, which they generally do, to earn one's living, these gallant A. B.s have hardly begun their apprenticeship. Even...