Word: greatness
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...obliged to buy a compass, in order to "know where he was when he was lost." We started on Hanfield Avenue, turned up Victory Street and ascended Mount Garfield, where we could see the charming city Chelsea below us, and in the distance the blue air of Boston. The great questions to be solved were these : Do the blue waves lick the ocean? Is Chelsea built on terraces formed by fish bones from Tafts or by the sea? We thought so. After this solution the instructor was all broke up, and said he wanted a solution with a little glacier...
...parted, napped, descended, and met again; but, fortunately for you, reader, not one man had a dream (I cannot lie, for one). We lunched on marron mashe and green fruit, served, expressly for the occasion, from the Brunswick. While lunching, the great question of debate was whether we should keep on walking to Malden or return to Chelsea. Some thought Malden, some Chelsea, nearer. I was sent as a committee of one to find out which was right...
...JAMES ha??? resumed his course of weekly lectures on Physiology and Hygiene, which proved so valuable last year. They are now given in the lower lecture-room in Sever, which is a great convenience, in avoiding the walk to the Museum, and the bad ventilation of the lecture-room there. The hour chosen, two o'clock on Wednesdays, is perhaps as good a one as the crowded Tabular View could afford. We are glad to mention also Dr. Sargent's informal lectures at the Gymnasium, on the use of apparatus...
...second Thursday, between 2 and 5 P.M., to attend the debates in English 6. Much can be learned there, not only by those wishing to become good debaters, but by all who seek that peculiar kind of improvement which, for want of a better name, is called "general culture." Great as the advantage is of listening to the speeches of four well-prepared disputants, it is small in comparison with the advantage of learning sound lessons in tact and acuteness from an instructor who has made these subjects a life study. To deliver just opinions not only on the merits...
...tennis in which I was participating, and introduced himself to me; after a little conversation the extremely polite gentleman invited me to call on him at nine the following morning, saying he would like to have me meet His Honor the Judge and a few friends. The Judge, the Great Mogul, the High Muckamuck, was quite enough; he must have been a foreigner, for with frigid smile and withering glance he said: "Ignorantia non excuset; four dollars and nine cents, please." I told him I never spoke the language in my life, but supposed it was all right, paid...