Word: considerable
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A meeting of the whole Freshman class will be held next Tuesday evening at 7.30 o'clock in Lower Massachusetts, to consider the amendment to the class constitution proposed at the last smoker.
Homer's anthropomorphism caused the gods to dominate the life of the Greeks. Consider, for instance, the supersititious terror about the mutilation of the Hermes, the Eleusinian mysteries, etc. The "Milesian Spirit" in the Iliad is illustrated by the numerous battles between the gods favorable to the Greeks and those...
...arrogance and self-conceit. There are in the poem many inconsistencies, such as various descriptions which cannot be thought out, and similes which are not strictly applicable. In examining various instances of these inconsistencies the conclusion seems to be that the high poetic value of the Iliad must be considerably detracted from. We see many of the similes and descriptions taken over ready-made from order books or traditions, and although we might think this to be fatal to originality, we must consider the exact meaning of the term. We should regard a work of art original when it produces...
The communication suggesting the inappropriateness for most occasions of the opening lines of "Fair Harvard," which we print in another column this morning, deserves more attention than we are apt to realize at the first glance. Certainly when we stop to consider the meaning of these lines, so familiar to...
At the Freshman class smoker, held in the Union last night, it was voted to hold a class meeting next week to consider the addition of an amendment to the constitution to the effect that important business should not be undertaken by the class officers without the sanction of the...