Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...infinite as space and time? and in what, I pray, are those we gravely call historical characters, of which each new historian strains his neck to get a new and different view, in any sense more real than the personages of fiction? Do not serious and earnest men discuss Hamlet as they would Cromwell or Lincoln? Does Caesar, does Alaric, hold existence by any other or stronger tenure than the Christian of Bunyan or the Don Quixote of Cervantes or the Antigone of Sophocles? Is not the history which...
...response to the call of Dr. Sargent and Manager White, Managers Mills of the 'varsity crew, and Hill and Williams of the Baseball Association met yesterday afternoon in the Trophy Room to discuss plans for restoring the missing pictures and for providing suitable receptacles for the flags and other trophies. Nothing definite was decided upon, but Dr. Sargent urged the managers to take the matter in hand and see that the present undesirable state of affairs be remedied...
...Discuss the differences between Tennyson's treatment of the story of Arthur and that of earlier writers on the same subject...
...Yale are very much overdoing the Junior Promenade week and are spending an amount of money on it which is entirely beyond what is reasonable. Whether or not Yale is spending too much money on the Promenade is, of course, none of our business and we shall not discuss it here. Our point is simply this, that people are beginning to appreciate that they can no longer confine the terms "extravagance" and "rich man's college" to Harvard without betraying distressing ignorance and laying themselves open to the charge of idiocy. Harvard can show no festival of any kind which...
What has given Buddha his great influence, is not so much the theory which he propounded as the beautiful, mild life which he practiced. When men asked what the Nirvanah was to be, and what was the explanation of existence, he would answer, "Do not discuss what Nirvanah is; it is the going out from your souls of the fires of passion and lust." Thus he brought his questioners down to the practical duties of life. When we see how good and lovable a man he was and how he tried to make men better, both in his time...