Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fallacy of believing any to be derived from sensation or reflection. Here, as well as elsewhere in his book, he is in strict harmony with Descartes. In fact, he seems to have written to simplify and explain his great master; and though we find nowhere mention of Descartes, we cannot doubt the admiration and assent implied in every paragraph. He is then a Descartes made easy, - a Robinson Crusoe in words of one syllable. In the simplicity and Saxon character of his phraseology he forcibly reminds us of our own humorist, Petroleum V. Nasby, and, in fact, a more elaborate...
...travel, and the observation and study of the best processes of education at home and abroad; receiving a generous and cordial welcome from your learned and accomplished associates to their companionship and chieftainship; and added to all these personal and social qualifications an hereditary loyalty to the Institution, which cannot fail to inspire the heart of a son whose honored father, so many of us remember, was one of its most devoted, efficient, and valued friends, - there seems nothing wanting to our heartfelt congratulations on this day, both to the University and to yourself...
...Nine the loss of gate-money will be a considerable one, but their expenses are comparatively light, and can be borne by subscription. The more important loss, of course, is that of practice with professional clubs, who would not come without a consideration. It cannot be denied that this is of the greatest value to our Nine in their games with Yale and Princeton, who are in the habit of practising constantly with professionals, and whose successes of last summer are largely due to this fact. The Boston grounds could occasionally be had, but this resort would be unreliable...
...University crew; and although the Law and Medical Schools cannot pull in a race, the interest they take in the result of the Regatta is quite as great as that of the undergraduates. So many of the members of these schools are graduates of Harvard, that we cannot think our confidence in their willingness to aid us is misplaced...
Vessel pitching violently when I awake. Steward asks if I will get up to breakfast. Reply, "Of course I will get up to breakfast." Smoking pork-steak! Miserable meal. Cannot eat anything. Think I would like fresh air. Go up on deck and stagger to the rail. My beaver blows overboard. Do not mind it at all. Sympathizing gentleman lends me a cap three times too large for me. I think people are laughing, but do not pay any attention to them. Am entirely indifferent to everything. Think I had better go back to bed . . . .July...