Word: bushel
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...place in the front rank of American universities, and yet this claim is seldom made. The press teems with the well-grounded self-congratulations of Harvard and Yale. Princeton is, in name, about to become a university, while we at Pennsylvania are content to hide our light under a bushel. We have a corps of professors at least equal to that of any institution in America: we have open to us courses of study in all directions; we can become classical scholars, philologists, mathematicians, engineers, chemists, botanists, financiers, biologists, physicians, dentists, veterinary surgeons, lawyers - in the different departments which...
...more effective. Garrick's, 'Prithee, undo this button,' was remembered long after his more stately passages were forgotten. The actor who relaxes from a natural to an artificial tone loses force. To be natural on the stage is more difficult, but a grain of nature is worth a bushel of artifice. Nature may be overdone by triviality when exaltation is demanded. Like the practised orator, the actor rises and descends with the sentiment, and cannot always be in a fine frenzy...