Word: passing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...grown! The plan as first broached had a pleasant sound in one's ears, and so long as we had but one or two examinations in a week, we cheerfully submitted for the sake of the good they did us. But now that things have come to such a pass that we find ourselves confronted every four weeks or so with three, four, five, or more examinations crowded into one week, it would seem that the pretty cub has already developed into a monster whose insatiable appetite threatens us all with destruction. With prophetic foresight I contemplate in horror...
...always more or less coarse. If you pass your time for a month or two in their company, and in their company alone, you will be amazed at your own roughness, to say the least, when you mingle once more with the fairer portion of humanity. A man at college, where home and where home friends do not happen to be accessible, is very apt to pass almost all his time with men. And the result is that a college education, which ought to make finished gentlemen, oftener succeeds in roughening than in polishing the diamonds which are confided...
...first to enter it. Now, dazzled by the fancy of initiating a series of Oxford-Cambridge races, wherein if the glory of victory would be less, so would be the disgrace of defeat, she has followed Yale in retiring, and rowing in America has doubtless passed the high flood of its fame." It may be queried how Harvard could initiate a series of Oxford-Cambridge races, and how a thing could pass the high flood (whatever that may be) of its anything. "The Muse's Last Visit" to the Argus was anything but pleasant, and from the following we shall...
...glowing coals, and, while composing myself for sleep, to tell, or hear told, an incident or two as to what "he said" and "she did." And often the pleasantest memories of college life are these hours spent with gas turned down, - hours filled with words that can only pass between friends that have played and worked together, for only to such do we like to unbosom ourselves of plans for play and work in the future...
...case. And the consequence is, that instead of being a leader in discovery, invention, and opinion, the representative Harvard graduate of to-day is, as a general thing, a representative merely of a slight amount of culture and the most well-bred traits. He is able to pass a fair opinion in literature, art, and occasionally in science, but is far from being a forerunner in progressive work. He is amply satisfied to luxuriate in the attainments of the present. In other words, his civilization is stationary...