Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Jellinek carefully defined Burke's position on the various questions of the day, and also gave a clear account of English-Irish difficulties up to the present time. His style was always graceful and at times even eloquent, and Mr. Jellinek deserves the congratulations of all who heard...
...Ward delivered his first lecture on "Modern Anthropology" last night before a large audience. He said: Anthropology is a new study which is by no means clear to the popular mind. It has as its object to give man a knowledge of himself. In early times men were disgraced as atheists who attempted investigations into the mysteries of their origin, and it was not until the middle of the eighteenth century that enough facts had been obtained on this subject to found a system of knowledge. But then men began to make researches and new facts were discovered every year...
From the poems of Homer we get a very clear notion of Homeric civilization. It differed from that of the later Greek life; it was an age of transformation, where the noblest tendencies were strangely crossed by the coarsest ones. He has depicted this life so clearly by telling his story in the words and actions of his characters, keeping himself in the back ground. The language and the thought harmonize beautifully, the language showing an astonishing adaptability of the varying phases of the thought...
...students have been in great ignorance in regard to the meaning of the recommendations, and every one who heard Mr. Walcott last evening, although many cannot conscientiously agree with the vote in regard to reporting in the morning, must feel grateful for the clear and kindly explanation which cannot fail to remove in a great measure the objections of undergradates to the policy of the Overseers...
This will furnish an opportunity for the students to hear the reasons which influenced the majority of the Overseers to vote as they did, presented in a clear manner by one of themselves...