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...this Board of Regents the seed of an institution which shall be to America what the London University is to England, and one enraptured journal talks about a grand national University, "where all the sisterhood of colleges shall be united into one." Surely it would be a pleasant sight to see America's thousands of students flocking to some city in order to be examined. Or perhaps the examining board is to be peripatetic, in which case to be a member would insure one extraordinary advantage in the way of travel. Any one who seriously considers the question will readily...
...spite, however, of all its drawbacks, the photographic art gives a deal of pleasure to man-kind. Not to speak of the character-study presented by every album, we can gratify ourselves with the sight of distant friends without the intervention of spirits; and in their "photos" they present themselves in a constant state of imperturbable good-nature and equanimity...
...double-sight, and yet - wouldst learn...
...some time to stretch out. At the moment his right foot is over the bench he begins, and then (with his hands in his coat-tail pockets) he keeps on in a very measured and confident tone, pausing for breath between each word. He makes translating Latin at sight his specialty. We all know, too, the man who parades his knowledge by prompting you at a place which you know fully as well as he does. He is only a little less provoking than the man who will not prompt you when you want...
...then, how I trembled when I entered Harvard Hall, and how my knees shook together at the sight of some figures on the blackboard which looked to me like all the diagrams in my geometry crammed into one. How nervously I laughed when a then unknown gentleman, while explaining the programme of the unhappy days, made a joke. How I rushed on the first opportunity to the fresh air, and sought for consolation in discussing the point of the joke with a friend in misery, until a live Sophomore whom we had the honor of knowing came up and gave...