Word: acte
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...unexpectedly large audience listened to Professor Marsh's lecture last evening on "The Classics in the Revival of Learning." The decline in learning said Professor Marsh, began as early as the third century, owing to the spiritual and intellectual depression. Nobody dared think or act independently. In the fifth century came the invasions of the barbarians into Italy, destroying almost all traces of classical learning. But about this time came the beginning of a revival, that was to culminate in the Renaissance. In these mediaeval days education was limited chiefly to grammar and rhetoric. For illustration, in these branches...
...annual threatricals of the Delta Upsilon fraternity will be held at Union Hall, Boston, this afternoon at 2.30. The play, entitled "Our Charley," is a three act comedy written by S. M. Ballou '93 and David D. Wells...
...Should the paragraph of the McKinley administrative act which requires a statement of the cost of manufactures be repeated...
...decision as between your plan and ours to two graduates, one from Harvard, to be chosen by us, and one from Harvard, to be named by you. In case the two graduates so chosen cannot agree, they shall choose a third person, not a graduate of either University, to act with them, and the decision of the majority shall be final...
...continue the abominable habit. Old John is old and feeble enough as he is; let him have every chance to pass the last years of his life as happily as possible. The college will miss him when the time comes for him to go and it seems an inhuman act to force him to his ruin...