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...guard thy form alone, alone thy name...
...scientific researches, and thus extend their fame and better their positions. But it is not to be supposed that a man worth anything will come here at any price, to be tied down year after year to such machine-work as the shovelling of facts into the sieve-form minds of a hundred and fifty ordinary boys, and the examination of eight hundred or so blue books per annum...
...second wife of Isaac Goose. Goose, at that time, possessed ten children. His second wife bore him six, and, in view of this accumulated progeny, it has been supposed that "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe" grew out of its author's experience. Such dim hints form our chief knowledge of the life of Mother Goose, as, indeed, often happens in the case of writers who are absorbed in their work...
...college government may be made to progress. These are, Necessity, Legacies or Gifts, and Public Opinion. Of these, necessity is the strongest, legacies act the most quickly, and public opinion is the weakest and takes the longest time in producing its results. But when it takes such a positive form as a general refusal to live in a certain building, it makes itself felt more promptly. It has taken only six or eight years of continual talk among the students and constant complaint in the College papers, to make it evident to the authorities that something must be done about...
...down flat upon your temples (such foolishness as school-girls only used to be capable of); you never by any chance confess an interest in anything except tennis and Germans. Indifference, I believe you call it. But goodness preserve me from such a disposition! it is but a form of insanity which would in the end bring us back to the condition of barbarians; their indifference is but the acknowledgment of ignorance. The less a man is indifferent to the subjects brought up before him, the more he proves himself to have advanced from barbarity - ignorance...