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Half dreamingly those scenses I trace...
...enforces such a belief on its members, must be narrow and must exert a bad influence over all who come under its sway." This has been said more than once by people who pride themselves on being well read and posted on educational subjects. It is extremely difficult to trace to its source any such report, and yet there must be some foundation for such positive statements. Undoubtedly the tendency of Harvard was Unitarian in the beginning of the century, and up to the last few years many of the instructors, fellows, and overseers have been of that faith. This...
...three great masters in the three great periods of the school's life.- Cheever in the seventeenth century, Lovell in the eighteenth, and Gardner in the nineteenth. The school was the teacher of many of the most prominent men of the country. Within its walls John Hancock learned to trace the name which stands first among the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Here were educated the Adamses, Paul Revere, Charles Sumner, Wendell Phillips, Emerson, Beecher, President Eliot, and a host of men who have stamped themselves on the minds of men. The speaker declared himself in favor...
...lightly turns to thoughts of love." Boswell's fancy was fixed on love during the whole twelve-month. His letters, unfortunately, do not begin until he is twenty, so that we are precluded from any view of his real life until that time; but after that age, we can trace, with a good deal of accuracy, the course of his thoughts. In the very first letter we plunge head-long into an account of one of his many attachments. It does not describe one of the important affairs, but it is so characteristically told that I quote the letter...
...make it impossible to stand them up. The balls are in insufficient quantity, there being few small ones, and those for the most part chipped or split. Add to this that the alleys are seldom lighted till five o'clock or after, that there is not a trace of a sponge in any of the cups provided for them, and that the chalk is fragmentary and scarce. These defects can be remedied at a trifling expense, and will greatly please all lovers of "the great freshman elective...