Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...soon comes, and as a cat, from behind some garden shrub, pounces upon a poor robin picking a worm from out the earth, so pounce they upon the unsuspecting student picking a crib from out his pocket. Then internally they chuckle to themselves: "Ha, ha! he, he! they thought to escape, but we're too sharp for them...
...thought of boon companions...
...proctor go by without feeling like praying for him. To think of the depth to which some of my fellow-creatures have sunk! To think that whole, able-bodied men, some of them peradventure endowed with reason, can thus grovel in the dust, and deceive themselves in the thought that they are pursuing their duty! O Popoi! how sad! how sad! Earth does not contain a more pitiful spectacle. And I wonder if any cruel Nemesis will reduce me to such a lot, and at once a cold chill pierces my marrow, my hands involuntarily seek my pockets...
...dreary waste of college life. Even there, I claim, the time is not sufficiently long. To properly review the work of months within three weeks, without "exhaustive toil and midnight oil," is generally impossible. The ambitious student grinds and digs his health away, while the "bummer," secure in the thought of no recitations to-morrow, spends the days in sleep, the nights in "howls...
...student opinion as to the character and abilities of a fellow-student we are all aware. Harvard College has placed on its governing board two of the gentlemen mentioned, and has bestowed upon them other marks of honor. Of the influence Mr. Emerson and Mr. Adams have on the thought and opinion of Harvard students it is unnecessary to speak. The charge that Mr. Sumner was impolitely treated at a dinner in Cambridge was sufficiently disproved a year ago in the Advertiser. Phillips Brooks has more Harvard students in his congregation than any other preacher in Boston or Cambridge...