Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Shakspere in certain relations to our own time...
...There is certainly an attitude of individualism, of selfishness in the Harvard spirit; this is a good thing to a certain point, but far better it is to sink one's own personality for a common object. We are all one huddle of sticks and if one breaks we all break; the surest way for one to raise himself is to raise and honor the college. It is not the man who only tries to benefit himself, but he who now fights best for Harvard, who makes Harvard his ideal, that will later make his country his ideal. Sometimes...
...classic fables have come down from early times under the name of Esop's fables; but Esop, like Homer, is an unknown person. The first known collections of Greek fables was made about 300 B. C., by a certain Demetrius. Upon his version succeeding collections were made, with additions of tales from the East. From Greece the fables spread to Rome and thence over Europe, until in the Middle Ages several collections of tales were made in England and France, notably by Romulus Imperator and Marie de France...
...Shakspere in certain relations to our own time...
...Harvard's history will be given under the auspices of the Harvard Memorial Society. Tickets are to be distributed to students of the University on the afternoon of each lecture. This is the first series of lectures of the kind that has ever been delived here and it is certain not only to be exceedingly entertaining but also of great value. Few members of the University have any real acquaintance with the history of Harvard during the last forty years. Every one of course is familiar with the great events that have marked that period, but very few know well...