Word: comely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This is the only lecture of the course which will be given in German, and those who are students of this language should not fail to be present tonight, since the lectures are open to any and all who will come...
Sever 11 was filled to its utmost capacity last night by men in all departments of the University who were desirous of hearing from a member of the Board of Overseers their true idea of the good which would come to the University from the recent regulations passed by the board. Mr. Roger Walcott, a member of the Board of Overseers, gave, in an informal way, the reasons which had prompted the board to take its recent action. Mr. Walcott's views were far from radical, it was plain that his audience was in sympathy with him in the stand...
...movement has been started among those men who have come to Harvard from other colleges, with the object of counteracting the wrong impressions of Harvard life and methods which have been wide spread recently...
...college library. Now it is the turn of those branches of learning-of philology, literature, philosophy, political economy, history, mathematics, and music-for the very existence of which the reading-room in Gore Hall is a necessity, to call upon Harvard's many and kind friends to come to the aid of their alma mater and to present her with a reading-room such as she deserves, such as the ever-increasing number of her students demands, such as the present poor accommodations render an obvious necessity. We concur with President Eliot in his statement that such a call...
...life which it should be their duty to follow. It will be seen that from their customs, by every one of which the mind was trained to look up to Homer as a master, there could be no other result than that the Greeks should come to look upon him as one far above the professional teacher of ethics and morality. They thought of him as the fountain head of all virtue and goodness, and they therefore defied and worshipped him. Through all the ages Homer's place in literature has received as little injury from the hands of assailants...