Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...then of peculiar interest to college men to witness the controversy that it now going on about the criticism which has just been pronounced on Mr. Emerson by a man almost equally famous, Mr. Matthew Arnold. It would seem as if a great number of Emerson's countrymen were unaware of the esteem and appreciation in which they held him, until they imagined an attempt was being made to lower him from his lofty place. Since then, nothing that could be said has been too extravagant to be uttered in his eulosy. But we believe that all this commotion...
...rising talent of every generation as a calling in which, like all others, a man who loves it and pursues it with zeal can have not only its special and peculiar pleasures but also a fair amount of the material comforts which the bulk of his countrymen seek, and are praised for seeking by all contemporary moralists and theologians...
...Latin sentence, which requires more than the most elementary knowledge of the languages, after their freshman year. In Oxford this is not the case. Greek and Latin are kept up by the student until the classic works are as familiar to him as are the productions of his own countrymen. Oxford men quote ancient languages in their daily conversation. The reason for this is easily understood. The fact that all the students are occupied in the same line of study gives them sympathetic views. Men are readier to converse on the subject of their studies when they are sure that...
...Association. Harvard and Yale experience in the old Inter-collegiate Association was far from pleasing. Whatever was thought to be known about amateur crew rowing ten years ago was supposed to be locked up at Cambridge and New Haven, and when the "potato-digging agriculturists" from Amherst and other "countrymen" pulled away the honors and renown from the scientific "oars" of the great universities, the disappointment was very great. With only two crews in a race the chances of a "win" are far better than with seven or eight, and, as Harvard and Yale want to be winners...
What works my countrymen...