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The centinel and bandy-legg'd drummer! nothing on this side of old Athens could equal them! they read their lectures under the city-gates to comers and goers, with all the pomp of a Chrysippus and a Crantor in their porticos.
There were very few points in these lectures that were not vigorously contested at the moment, and conceded in the sequel in some form or other.
"Don't you listen to Béla, my little Elsa," said one of the older women; "you are still a free girl to-day. You just do as you like to-morrow will be time enough to do as he tells you." But this opinion the married men present were not prepared to endorse, and one or two minor arguments and lectures ensued anent a woman's duty of obedience.
With the results of two years of professional lectures, he was now imbibing continental experiences, and plotting a bicycle "scientific tour of the world."
All undergraduates had to attend lectures or disputations for twenty-four hours in every week. These tasks were arranged with careful malignity to begin at 6 A.M., and resumed at 2 P.M. and 6 P.M. Nor were examinations wanting. The Bible was to be read during dinner in Hall by a Bible Clerk or Scholar, and heard attentively and reverently.
Only the loftiness of my ideal saved it from making womanish shipwreck on this episode in its austere voyage towards the realization. As Guy became more and more competent, I delegated more and more into his hands the preparation for the lectures.
It is a curious picture which Bunyan has drawn of the intercourse between the giant and his wife Diffidence. They form a very loving couple in their way; and the giant takes no new step in the treatment of the pilgrims without consulting Mrs. Diffidence over night, so that the curtain lectures to which we listen are very curious. But Mrs.
With respect to Classics I did nothing except attend a few compulsory college lectures, and the attendance was almost nominal. In my second year I had to work for a month or two to pass the Little-Go, which I did easily.
"Oh," he said, "why should I go? There hasn't been any one mobbed in twenty years!" The Ralph Waldo Emersons occasionally attended our meetings, and Mr. Emerson, at first opposed to woman suffrage, became a convert to it during the last years of his life a fact his son and daughter omitted to mention in his biography. After his death I gave two suffrage lectures in Concord, and each time Mrs.
"And the better one likes one's home, the harder it is to shake them off." He turned and looked full at her, then exclaimed, "Exactly," and paused, adding, "I wonder what you want. Has it a form?" "Oh yes, I mean to give lectures. I should like to see the world, and study physical science in every place, then tell the next about it.
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