Word: recollections
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...football experts are like the primitive races of man. You recollect how Sir Henry Maine says that all early codes were marked by an inflexible rigidity, because their rules were thought to have come down from Heaven itself. To most football players the suggestion of a radical change in the game seems about as impious as to ask a Priest of Menu to say his prayers without washing his feet...
...author's general power of mind, of a poet's constructive ability, but the very best of them cannot render for us that which is the characteristic of all great and individual writing, namely, Style, any more than a plaster cast can reproduce a marble statue. Shakespeare, you recollect, with that inevitable tact in the choice of epithets which gives to every careless phrase of his an esoteric as well as exoteric meaning, makes Quince exclaim, when he sees Bottom with the ass's head on his shoulders,- "Bless thee, Bottom, bless thee, thou art translated...
...gives us great pleasure to welcome again Mr. E. Charlton Black of Edinburg who will deliver a course of lectures on English literature, beginning tonight. Those of us who had the privilege of hearing Mr. Black last year will recollect how scholarly and interesting his lectures were and how popular they became. They are on subjects which he well knows how to make entertaining and instructive; and as the course is free to all, Sever 11 should be well filled...
...could have obtained your education, but nowhere else could you have it crowned with the wide interests and the broad culture of a true university. It is this university culture and training which teaches you to adopt a wider course, to consider your business in a broader way, to recollect the world and to think of society. But do not misunderstand the meaning of the words "public success." Again it is the University which points out to you the difference between quality and quantity of approval; which tells you to have a calm confidence and buoyant enthusiasm...
...examination on Monday and therefore stays in Cambridge to study hard all Saturday. But the more common-sense view to which we are forced is that Ninety-four does not care whether her nine wins or not. It is easier to believe that such is the case when we recollect the support which the class has hither to given its own athletic teams. It is disheartening to urge the necessities of the case upon a class which shows such a willful disregard of them. The freshman class has a chance to show that all these unkind things which we have...