Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...report of the Dean of the college is given a statement of the studies which are elected by the freshmen. Instead of dropping the dead languages and mathematics, as many thought would be the case, when elective was substituted for prescribed work in the first year, it is a significant fact that these studies are by far the most popular. Latin stands at the head of the list, with 196 students; then comes Greek with 163, and Mathematics with 141; and the number of freshmen whose choice includes all these studies is 83. The Dean, in commenting on this says...
...only is truly educated who can point out a Greek root in an English derivative, and quote Sophocles and Plautus, will hold the view that Harvard's walls will be filled by "superficial practicalists." Others who believe that educated men should be something beside curiosity hunters in the dead languages will claim that the young men who are to make future discoveries and benefit mankind with living truths, will see at Harvard an opportunity for beginning their good work. If this latter view be true, there is being planted the seed of a national university...
...League has been done chiefly through detectives. The platform is that every law should be obeyed by every citizen, and therefore every citizen should promote the enforcement of law. A law, good or bad, is still a law, and should be an active law, and not a dead letter. Public opinion in the case of the liquor laws, certainly is favorable in Massachusetts; and though it were not, should the laws be neglected...
...river has veiled the staring eyes. Then, after many, many hours of quiet floating, it is espied from one of the lower quais. Now comes the rush of curious bystanders, the ropes which the officers of the Morgue let down to grapple it. Then it is put into the dead cart, while the frivolous crowd solemnly bare their heads; and at last it finds a resting place on a rugged couch behind the long, low window-and here we are on the other side of the window, gazing at it with a terrible feeling of sick fascination. Horrible! We turn...
After Milton comes the classical age, and the Christian mythology ceases to inspire poetry. The classical poets return to the dead and formal use of the personifications and abstractions of the heathen mythology. We have the Devil of De Foe's matter-of-fact "History;" but here the Devil is the old popular Devil with the horns, tail, and cloven foot, which he acquired in the Middle Ages period of his evolution, His principal occupation is to play the devil with old women and other simple people, and we find little new in him. This same Devil has appeared from...