Word: comely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...close of the article Dr. McCosh draws a comparison between the American philosophy desired and the power of our agricultural products to feed the nations of Europe, saying that soon those countries will come to us for a philosophy as they now do for our produce. This is a "consummation devoutly to be wished," but which we can never expect, for the mercantile spirit that is so powerful in America to-day is not the one on which a philosophy that is destined to permeate all the peoples of the earth can be built. America has yet to appreciate...
...amusing collection of conjectures. One pauses, even in the midst of his laughter, to wonder how sub-freshmen could have acquired so happy a faculty of snap-shot answering before going through the collegiate apprenticeship which most of us have served. But practice makes perfect, and the time may come when these same men will be able to enter a course at the mid-years, and, without purchasing a book, read the section by pure force of faultless sight translation and blindly audacious guessing, as was actually done in a classical course a few years...
...come here wishing to learn to read French and German, and caring little about writing these languages. For such students courses I and II, with but slight attention to composition, are provided in German. The only corresponding French course is VIII, where large amounts are read. Yet there is a half course, and can be taken only as an extra. French I, as now carried on, has far more composition than the average student cares for. So the time spent in trying to get a working knowledge of French does not, as in other languages, count for a degree...
Another instalment of snow has come upon the already burdened yard. The exclamations of surprise and admiration which greeted it yesterday morning are destined eventually to become cries of deepest despair, as the unsuspecting pedestrian sinks ankle or knee deep into the "beautiful snow" changed to slush. There are four things a Harvard man should not bo without, for they are essential to his college career, if he would have that career a successful one. He needs money to pay his bills, brains to get his degree, and a stout pair of rubber boots that may be strapped over...
...third volume of the College Series of Greek Authors is Plato's 'Apology of Socrates' and 'Crito,' edited on the basis of Cron's edition by Louis Dyer, assistant professor in Harvard University. We have rarely come across an edition of a Greek classic more satisfactory than this. Any one who reads the introduction, containing a summary of the history of Greek Philosophy anterior to the time of Plato, and who dips here and there into the commentary, will not wonder that German scholars have indicted their appreciation of Cron's work by calling for eight editions. Professor Dyer...