Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- "Is the Bicycle Club dead?" is a question frequently heard now among members of the club, and it seems to me there is reason for the question. The roads have been in splendid condition for the greater part of the last month, yet not a single run has been taken. The management seems entirely to forget the purpose of a bicycle club. On two occasions, it must be allowed, attempts were made to have a run, but on the first day it was too hot for a sane man to ride, and on the other it rained...
...write theses upon chemistry, engineering, machinery, and other subjects connected with their courses; the theologies deliver embryo sermons; the lawyers amateur pleas; the academics launch on the shivering audiences grand utterances of political economy, literature, biography-and why not classics? A fair proportion of time is devoted to the dead languages, and why should they not make a due appearance at commencement? While other colleges have made a grand ado about superstitions, traditions and fetiches, Yale has made, not the classics less important, but other studies more important. In the appointment of a Latin orator, Yale boldly avows her intentions...
...42nd university boat race between Oxford and Cambridge on Saturday, the Oxonians defeated the Cantabs by three boat lengths, the time being 21m. 36s. This gives Oxford 23 victories, and Cambridge 18, the race in 1877 having been a dead heat...
...large open fire-place yawned at its opposite end. A few dull embers flickered dimly there, sending out barely light enough to reveal the features of the room, and making the corners and recesses all the more fit abodes for the uncanny beings that haunt such places in the dead of night. Hundreds of volumes were ranged up the sides of the walls. Ancient tapestries from Venice and Florence draped gracefully in the corners. Marbles and vases, gems and intaglios, represented the civilization of Greece and Rome. Knickknacks and curiosities from foreign lands lay scattered with studied carelessness among...
...effect of the study of English grammar, so called, is to cramp the free action of the mind; to bewilder and confuse where it does not enfeeble and formalize; to pervert the perception of the true excellence of English speech; and, in brief, to substitute the sham of a dead form for the reality of a living spirit. Where words have no varying forms indicative of their various relations, a grammar which is dependent upon those relations is obviously impossible. And it is only such a grammar that admits of those requirements of agreement and government and what not which...