Word: dead
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...separate, and which ought to be so kept. All experience proves that now and then a student only wastes time by trying to learn a foreign language, and that he may nevertheless attain a fair degree of scholarship in other departments. Some students who make little progress in the dead languages do fairly well with the living. The mind of one learner may be most effectively trained by means of one science, that of another, by another. And it is not asking our college authorities to do an unreasonable thing when we demand that they shall indicate as nearly...
Prof. Edward Oakley, LL. D., the eminent mathematician, was found dead in his bed Sunday morning from heart disease. He was the author of numerous and generally used works on mathematics. For the last thirty years he has been professor of mathematics in the University of Michigan...
...piqued him by raising false hopes as regards love within his legal breast. She wishes to marry her son to Helene, daughter of the Marquis De la Tour, whose estates had been confiscated and bestowed on the father of Barnard Dubois. This young gentlemen is supposed to be dead, but he returns to claim his property, incited thereto by the rejected Malesherbes. Bernard falls in love with Helene, and she returning the compliment, the marquis, glad to get out of his troubles, figuratively says, "Bless you, my children." Mr. Lander played the title role in his own work very well...
...ideal was too realistic, too highly seasoned for other than a short and inglorious existence. No other ideal will satisfy the aspirations of the followers of its past teaching. If it is to be revived in the form of a Shakspere Conference, it is, as Dr. Johnson says, "already dead." If it is to present a series of public Shaksperian recitals, it is incapable of accomplishing such work satisfactorily. Few desire its revival; none desires to create in it another opportunity for such a ludicrous and preposterous exhibition of inane and cheap acting as was thrust upon the university...
...will bring their friends and families. Visitors to the college who have no opportunity of attending morning prayers will try to be present, in order that they may get an insight into the religious services of the college, and find for themselves that religion at Harvard is not entirely dead, as many persons are led to believe. The winter months have been chosen for these services, as all the members of the University are then less absorbed in out-door interests. The half hour just before dinner was selected as convenient both to students and to professors...