Word: instinctiveness
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...could not help pitying the poor Chinaman, who presented a most woful appearance. His sad story is soon told. True to the instinct of a foreigner, he had made a pun in his Fine Arts Lecture. The fellows endeavored to show their appreciation by a thundering wooding-up and yells of applause. This seeming derision was too much for the hot blood of the Eastern Despot, - he sailed for the rabble. . . . The pieces of pigtail and silk trousers which hang as trophies in rooms of Seniors and Juniors might suggest his appearance as he came on the field...
Thither we by instinct turn...
...ball, which he tosses up, strikes with his bat, and in a graceful parabola it sweeps over the heads of the crowd, and - see! the man on the roof has caught it. A burst of applause greets this brilliant play. Alas! he is on the Nine; an instinct stronger than that of preserving life seizes him; quick as thought, he throws it to second! It has hardly left his hands before he realizes that he has made an error more startling than ever appeared upon his score before...
THERE of the successful competitors for Bowdoin prizes have read their dissertations in public, to audiences which were large for Harvard College. Mr. W. A. Smith's essay on "The Essential Distinction between Human Reason and the Instinct of Brutes" was more interesting than would be expected from the nature of the subject; yet those very qualities which made it interesting detracted from its merit as an essay; it contained too many illustrations and anecdotes. On the other hand, its form was too scientific for the general reader, and its theory was too palpably modelled after that of Mr. Herbert...
Walter Allen Smith of the Junior class, $100, for a dissertation on the "Distinction between Human Reason and the Instinct of Brutes"; William Warren Case, $75, for a dissertation on "Sir Philip Sidney as a Writer"; Arthur Hale, Junior class, $50. The report on classical and scientific subjects will be made next week...