Word: comee
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Cunningham Jr., who won third place in the 1000-yard run will come to Harvard next year from Hopkinson...
...would be surprising, if it had not come to be such a matter of course, to find the foremost college in the country offering instruction in such an elementary field as is covered by English A. That part of the course which deals with the history of English literature is, indeed, not out of place; but it is little less than absurd that freshmen at Harvard should have to be instructed in the first principles of composition, or, to put it with painful simplicity, should have to be taught to write even fairly well. And to write what? The absurdity...
...Atlantic States which are substantially like those of Japan. The species have undergone slightly different development since the geological period when they parted company. But, still, they are so much alike that our Japanese students feel at home in our fields and forests. Our troublesome weeds have all come from other countries. With one possible exception, there is not a native plant in the long catalogue of bad weeds. The special characteristics of the vegetation of our higher mountains, our forests and our fertile valleys in southern New England, were described and in part illustrated by lantern-slides...
...purity, human self-restraint, in the interests of which, among college men, outdoor athletic sports contribute more than all other agencies combined. As a matter of fact, the statements concerning bodily injuries incurred contain gross exaggerations. If athletics have been prostituted by gamblers and pugilists, let the college world come to the rescue and assign them to the place to which they belong. Woe betide the day when our college men, with temptations of every kind besetting them, become so slothful, so demoralized, so diseased as to lose their interest in athletics. In the University of Chicago, athletic work...
...fullest existence is the subject of the Divine Comedy. Visions of the life to come had long been popular. The novelty of Dante's work lay in the knowledge of the unity of the life on earth and the life after death. Heaven with Dante was not a place of arbitrary reward, nor Hell a place of arbitrary punishment. They were self-determined conditions of the soul of man. He extended the realm of nature into the unseen universe. The Divine Comedy was not intended merely to alarm the sinner by the picture of Hell's horrors, nor to confirm...