Word: actually
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Chaney '94 surprised every one by his splendid work in the high jump. His actual jump of 5ft. 11 1-2 in. was the best...
...objection. Quite to the contrary, the singing is felt by all to be one of the pleasantest features of the closing days of the college year, and most fitting for a club of students. Of course it is conceivable that the applause might become too boisterous, but, in actual fact, there is no call for fear on this account. The University would be grateful to the Regent if he would see that such a blunder should not again be made by any of the policemen...
...Union by taking a far greater interest in its work than ever before, and it is on the continuation of this interest that the Union now is counting in resolving to buy the old City Hall. It has been practically decided to buy this property, though as yet the actual transfer has not been made. The price of the land and building is $23,000. The building will be overhauled and a fourth story added during the summer; the improvements are to cost $17,000. The money is to be raised as follows: By first mortgage, $23,000; by five...
...poem as sincere as that of Dante-in some senses as national as his, but which fails of effect because it is deficient in art; whose images are as vivid as Dante's, but differ in this that they are all presented on the plane of the actual and not the ideal, that the painting is Dutch and not Italian. The poem I speak of is Piers Ploughman's Visions...
...That a Latin sentence was really an instrument of thought and expression, saying something directly as it went along, hardly enters their heads. And even a play, in which people have real emotions, talk, make bargains and swear, gives, when merely read, very little suggestion of actual thought. Few people have the dramatic imagination sufficiently to project the words into real life. But, when a character is impersonated on the stage, the words get a reality from the embodiment that can not be had in any other manner. Though Latin plays have the additional unreality of verse, yet, when...