Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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"Of all the nations of antiquity, the Greeks were the first to conceive the idea of perfect unity in dualism and to reason it out to its fullest extent. They recognized the truth that physical soundness is the basis of mental and moral excellence. They saw in a person's...
Of verse this number of the Advocate contains four pieces. "The Oak" is well-conceived; is very good in form. The writer has a peculiar bent toward this kind of simile and he handles it very well. Of even a more serious character than this short moral reflection is "A...
"There is so much spoken and unspoken criticism of Harvard College that those who know the inner working of life among the mass of students are sometimes moved to anger and sometimes to mirth by the condition of the public mind towards institutions of education. Many seem to regard Harvard...
"The first requisite for success is a habit of self-discipline. Boys, or rather young men, of eighteen, who have never been thrown on their own resources, whose hours have been mapped out for them, whose coming and going has been regulated by authority, whose clothes have been bought, whose...
WILLIAM C. LAWTON, '73, author of several recent articles in the Atlantic Monthly upon Greek dramas and kindred subjects, will give six readings from Euripides, Wednesday afternoons at 3, in the Hawthorne Rooms, Park street, Boston, beginning Jan. 18. The readings will include an original metrical rendering of three entire...