Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...whole, as to achieve an accurate and thorough knowledge of some particular parts of learning. Though as we travel along the plain we may better appreciate the details of the landscape and obtain a truer idea of it, and of what constitutes its beauty, than if from a mountain-top we saw all commingled and undistinguishable in the hazy distance; yet the latter view is the broader and grander, and that we may have a true idea of the whole region and the relations of its parts, it is almost indispensable. Besides which, it seems to me discreditable that...
...stood beside a mountain stream...
...mountain-passes, "Immortality...
When chanting your vespers o'er mountain and stream...
...mountain labored and brought forth a mouse; in other words, the wisdom of the College has again discussed compulsory chapel, and has abated chapel services for Sunday mornings. There can be no doubt now that the College has found its felo de se. Whither has the religious zeal of our Puritan ancestors fled? No more shivering through early prayers on Sunday morning! The next step downward will be some such villanous scheme as the ventilation of the recitation-rooms. But why should that religious service which is necessary six mornings in the week be found superfluous on the seventh? Truly...