Word: rather
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...with the publishers of the Atlantic Monthly for a series of articles on this subject, the first of which appears in the next number. A second, fortunately, has been dictated and taken down, but not finally revised; it will probably, however, be published. Perhaps he entered upon this work rather reluctantly, inasmuch as he always had held that a better understanding of nature, a closer investigation of the facts upon which the theory is based, would make many renounce it, and therefore has, with this point in view, pursued the policy of increasing our knowledge of nature, - believing that...
...death of a man of science is a great loss at any time; that of Agassiz, just at the present, particularly so. Preferring to see for himself, rather than accept the statements of others, he spent much time in critical observation, and was preparing to record the results of his extensive researches for the benefit of the world. He felt this to be his solemn duty, and asserted the same recently in one of his lectures, and also remarked, that, although willing and ready to give information to any asking it, he yet desired that his time should...
...poet may write good prose, but his verse will be verse and nothing more; for the talents which enable him to succeed in the former are quite different from those necessary for success in the latter. He had better, then, confine himself to efforts in which success is certain, rather than seek after that which is virtually beyond his reach, not being attainable by human effort, but being a gift of nature...
There is also a superfluity of figurative language in some poems which is sometimes so frequent as to obscure rather than to illustrate the thought. Being struck by a particularly poetical idea, the author writes a poem to display it, but commonly the thought which constitutes the subject is contained in two lines, and the rest of the poem is filled with metaphor and figurative expressions. It seems quite possible that short poems might be written wholly without such...
...feel constrained to express our heartfelt sympathy to them. Our feelings are drawn out in a peculiar manner to our fellow-students thus early deprived of those guardians and friends on whom young men are so dependent. May the breaking of other ties not serve to lessen, but rather to strengthen, those which bind them to their Alma Mater and their college friends, and may they find here the true sympathy of friendship to enable them to bear bravely their great trial...