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...wondering what we shall do during the next summer, and, like wise men, we decide generally to let things take their own course, and if then nothing turns up, to go to some place where we have enjoyed ourselves before, and where we are sure to meet old friends and live the same old times over again. The fear of passing an unpleasant summer, or of incurring great expense, prevents many from trying some new ground for their summer's enjoyment. To be sure, summer boarding-houses in the country are better than staying in the crowded city during...
...tendency to give too long examinations is quite as evident this year as it has ever been. The subject is a very old one, but the annoyance is so great that the only way to correct it eventually, seems to be to speak of it periodically. Examinations can never be a very perfect test of what a man knows; hence, a few questions answered well are, in the majority of cases, a much better test than a number answered hurriedly. It is an impossibility, for instance, to do justice to fifteen questions, "and write as fully...
...publish the directions which Mr. Child has given for the prosecution of this work. There are, doubtless, many people of Irish or Scotch birth who can repeat the ballads which have existed orally during so many years : but the number of these is on the wane. Many of the old songs are irrevocably lost; but it is not too late with diligence and care to accomplish much. Correctness, morever, is essential; and there is great demand for tact and patience. Any attempts at alteration will render a ballad utterly worthless for all critical purposes : the literary merit...
...graduated at Harvard some twelve or fifteen years ago. He was, at the time of our journey, a sedate man of thirty, plain in his person, and matter-of-fact in his ideas. He manifested no especial sentimentality in visiting the famous scenes and monuments of the Old World, and seemed on the whole somewhat of a cynic. We parted in Paris, he to devote several years to study and further travel, I to return to America and begin my life at the University. Just before we shook hands for the last time he gave me a sealed package...
...those swift-dividing intellects that seem perpetually to hover about the line that sunders reason and madness, subject to strange dreams and fancies, imaginative to an unhealthy degree. And she was whole matter-of-fact and commonplace, pretty enough, but - pah! what is such a woman when she grows old? But George was undoubtedly, uncompromisingly in love. And so matters came about that they were engaged to be married...