Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nation from its foundation to the time of Christ. Mingled with the purely historical are the books of prophecy, the poetical and devotional books and the books of ritual and law which formed the governing code of church and state. In this course Professor Lyon intends to read and discuss the writings of the prophets, as literary and historical relics of Hebrew literature...
...Bicycle Club has already begun to discuss plans for the coming spring. Interest in the club has been kept up during the winter by the monthly "smokers" which have been very well attended. There are now about fifty members, including associate members who do not own wheels. The officers are: President, S. F. McCleary, '88; Captain, R. S. Baldwin, '89; and Secretary, G. H. Merrill, '90. A number of men, of whom the most prominent are Davis, '91; Norton, L. S.; Brown, '91, and Bailey, '91, have declared their intention of going into active training for the two mile race...
...every American writer's works? What inference must a student draw who comes to you saturated with Emerson, lovingly familiar with Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes and Lowell, knowing Irving and Hawthorne by heart, ready to write essays by the score on Cooper, Sylvester Judd and Brockden Brown, or to discuss the works of Paulding, Poe, Prescott, Motley, Park man, and the rest, but who, for lack of familiarity with Scott, must fail in his examination? Is Scott, then, the one writer of fiction whose works an American boy should read? Is there nothing in American literature that should command his attention...
...were well filled, on Sunday evening, with students and visitors. The Rev. Dr. Hale conducted the services. He did not confine himself to any one text, but took the third chapter of the Gospel of St. John as a basis for his sermon. He stated primarily that he would discuss the chronology of the first part only of the life of Christ, leaving the chronology of the second part until the following Sunday. He spoke in substance as follows: "The narrative of the first half of the life of Christ was so gloomy and apparently unproductive that the three Gallilian...
...Columbia Spectator of October 26. 1887, promised to discuss '88's resolution in regard to the Columbia Harvard race in its next number. But the overflow of wrath promised has probably engulphed the Spectutor, as no "next copy" has yet appeared...