Word: caste
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Another quality is the poverty and the pettiness of all human life. We see a mass of objects, not men. Every person is but a passing shadow, one of many similar shadows cast by similar persons. Men die by thousands, but are not mourned by the mass. Their places as objects merely become vacant to be at once and silently filled by others. The death of the venerable elm on the common causes more general sorrow than the little child crushed beneath its falling branch...
...given in one of the sections. Now is this assertion of theirs really correct. Are the instructors actually assigning marks upon different standards of excellence? Those members of the course who are in the 1.30 section may remember a statement of the instructor in charge which would seem to cast some light upon the question. He said substantially as follows: "I regret to be obliged to state that the standard of this course has thus far been unusually low. My batch of fifty briefs was the poorest I have seen in a long while. I have been obliged to give...
...Bombastes Furioso," a burlesque, was the next thing on the programme. The cast is as follows...
This was followed by a presentation of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," with a graduate cast as follows...
...most essential quality of a good team,- pluck. The critics who make it a business to weigh scores against scores, and to forecast results by shrewd comparisons, may fight the battle out beforehand and give the victory to one team or the other. But every true Harvard man will cast such considerations aside today. The past will play no part in the game with Pennsylvania. The team will go on to the field with a definite task,- to win, and that not because other games during the season have resulted in this way or that, but becase they feel that...