Word: insight
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Does any one suppose that the person reading a marked book is impressed by the deep insight into human nature manifested by the marker! "O, no!" says Jones, who habitually marks the fine (?) parts of a book because he never wrote anything readable in his life, "but it calls attention to the beautiful passages." So it does, but only for a moment; and the reader wonders "what idiot marked that, as if I could n't find out the fine bits for myself...
...Tyndall's face, but wonders never cease at Cornell. The favorite dance seemed to be the "dignified lancier," and it was only at half past three that "the most enthusiastic dancers agreed that the Navy Ball of '77 was over." We thank the Era for giving us an insight into another Cornell mystery...
...Rebelliad," although very witty, is now antiquated; and, besides, it is often coarse. "Fair Harvard," which so delights a sub, a graduate cannot endure. Loring's "Two College Friends" is a more truthful picture of Harvard. But this volume of verse, in our opinion, gives a still better insight into College life, and is a better representative of Harvard feeling. We know of no work which will serve so well to remind a student of his College days when away, or which will give his friends so clear an idea of the joyous life he has led here...
...choose to call "indifference," - a term which is often used for laziness in very much the same way as, in the circles of outer darkness, "financial irregularity" is used for fraud. This indifference - to keep the more general term - is usually supposed to result from a precocious and unerring insight into the realities of things, and a moral and intellectual nature of too high a "tone" to take any interest in the vulgar and short-sighted struggles of the external world. The Harvard student is popularly supposed to be a handsome, well-dressed, and particularly self-indulgent Fakir. Like Lady...
Thus the student acquires a very desirable knowledge of the history and advancement of music in all its forms, as well as an insight into the moral effect which it has had over all ages. As a whole the course is a very enjoyable one, and cannot be too highly recommended to those who have a taste for music...