Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hour during the day but that there is some one at work there. For a half-hour every morning, Dr. Sever instructs the freshmen in club swinging and dumb bell exercise, and every evening a class in heavier gymnastics exercises under his guidance. In the afternoon during the common recreation hour the floor is crowded and all the apparatus is in use. The candidates for the Mott Haven team, usually about sixty in number, have not commenced work yet, but the class tug-of-war teams are practicing for the coming series, and others not athletically inclined, who work only...
...great audience Sunday night can doubt longer-if he has doubted, what good-practical common-sense good-these meetings may do. They are not a piece of Quixotry...
...tone of the Harvard spirit, it could easily be done away with without injuring that spirit. The only thing, however, that can accomplish the overthrow of snobbery is a reform in the general sentiment of the college, an awakening in the whole college of a sense of the common good. It seems that the tendency of the times is already in that direction. To that end we add our prayers...
...other countries of continental Europe soon followed. Schleyer's plan is very simple, his idea being to make a language containing as few words as possible, entirely regular in its construction, and using the best words to be found in the four or five languages in common use. The language has no artificial genders, only one conjugation, and no irregular words. The method of derivation is always the same, the adjective, verb and adverb being regularly formed from the substantive, invariably having the same termination, so it is necessary to learn only the nouns of the language. Volapuk has spread...
...scheme of his own. Not-withstanding this fact, Socrates was a prolific parent of philosophical schools and his influence was felt for generations after his death. The one principle of Socrates which we know is "All knowledge is virtue." Mr. Grote has done valuable service in refuting the common opinion held as regards the sophists. He shows that they had no share in corrupting Athenian youth. A strong argument in favor of this view is that Plato in his dialogues, Protagoras and Gorgias, treating on the two greatest sophists, makes no accusations whatsoever against them. Professor Goodwin illustrated the points...