Word: regarding
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...some of the Western States, but from the context it would at once be inferred that these were not all, while the writer would give the impression that those mentioned were the only ones. "The Report (page 12) suggests for all the undergraduates of Harvard College freedom in regard to attendance upon recitations, lectures, and religious exercises"; and further along he adds, "We all know that he" [the undergraduate] "should arrive at that freedom at some time; the only question is when." We agree with him exactly. He thinks young men, collegians from eighteen to twenty-two years...
...certainly suppose him one of the great men of the land. One of the small boys thinks he is the governor. He rather enjoys this, and does his best to carry out the illusion. He has spied one or two pretty girls in his audience, whom he proceeds to regard especially, to the eminent danger of subverting the discipline of the school. The teacher calls out his pet class to recite in Virgil, and our "dig" (ah, so fallen!) takes the offered book. He listens nonchalantly to a translation, and a number of questions from the teacher, when the latter...
...offering insults to another under the mere pretence that he is endeavoring to correct him. It would be presupposing a lack of common sense on the part of undergraduates to imagine that they would overstep the bounds of propriety in this line. Collegians generally have too high a regard for the feelings of others to commit themselves in that manner. Of course the thing can be carried to excess; so can everything else. It is as a means of toning down a too flashy style, or of pointing out in a pleasant way one's faults, and perhaps even...
...look down upon our fellow-men or upon our own natures. We may close the book and declare that Carlyle is the "Prince of Cynics," but we have felt and thought with him, and are inclined to acknowledge that he is right. The particular weakness he has exposed we regard with a scorn which has no mixture of pity. We may blame him for his quickness in discovering our vices and our failings, or for his slowness to appreciate our virtues; we may complain that he seeks the disease rather than the remedy; yet we seldom accuse him of untruth...
...assume to define the legitimate course of a public writer to any one, but merely to express an opinion in regard to it, and that opinion to bear chiefly upon but two of the important auxiliaries in its pursuit, - wit and humor...