Word: copiously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of the Advocate is without exception the worst for several years. Not only are some of the articles without merit but several have grave faults, and the number as a whole has no redeeming features.- except its copious clippings from the Christian Union. The first editorial discusses the football question in a spirit hardly compatible with the principles of fair play laid down by Harvard. The writer urges that our position should be maintained simply because we have adopted it, and concludes: "At any-rate whatever happens-since Harvard has taken a certain course we think men ought...
...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 made in his lecture by copious quotations from the Republic and Protagoras of Plato...
...large number of interesting and well-written articles, contributed by men of no less distinction than Carl Schurz, Mr. Stedman and Prof. Boyesen. The editorials are written in a conservative spirit, and treat the great questions of the day in a sensible, moderate way. The book notices are particularly copious and well done. If the Epoch continues as it has begun, the editors may feel confident of having supplied a need that was felt in the journalistic world...
...pair of parallel bars, and a horizontal bar: now, upon entering a gymnasium fitted up according to modern ideas, one is fairly bewildered at the maze of complicated apparatus which meets the eye. Bathing facilities were rare, in the old days: now no gymnasium is complete without its copious supply of water, hot and cold, fixed tubs, and shower baths...
President Eliot then presented the claims of the English language with its copious and splendid literature, the French and German languages, with their treasures of learning and philosophy, history, political economy, and the natural sciences, to be admitted to equal rank and dignity in every college curriculum, and to an equality of value as studies preparatory to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, with those more honored but no more important ancient and dead languages so long allowed exclusive privilege, and with those mathematics which are dead without their sister sciences...