Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor A. C. Coolidge '87 and Mr. W. Bayard Cutting, Jr., '00 have been appointed delegates of Harvard University at the "International Congress of the War of Independence and its Epoch," to be held in Saragossa from October 14 to 20, 1908, in connection with the celebration of the centennial of the siege of that city...
...opening, Dr. Henderson denied the assertion of many modern historians that the French Revolution is not an epoch-making event, and while acknowledging its retarding effects upon the progress of civilization, he emphasized the far-reaching result of such an important and hitherto unknown political experiment. The French Revolution in history is what the "Republic" of Plato is in the world of thought...
...Governor Long's speech for the semi-centennial of the class of 1857, so charming that one can only regret that it is so short, and a selection from the recently published "Ode to Harvard" by Witter Bynner '02. Many have felt that this ode marks a new epoch in Harvard literature; at all events its vigor and vividness and charm make it a poem that no Harvard man--and this is especially true of undergraduates today--can afford to pass...
...scholars in the ministry in New England, was the University preacher from 1886-90, and is now a member of the Board of Overseers. He has been the minister of the Old South Church, Boston, since 1884, and is the author of "The Christ of Today" and "The New Epoch for Faith...
...summing up, Mr. Murray said that the races which built up Homer, at length outgrew him, but that the end of the epoch was not a mere cessation, but a change to a language less beautiful, but more explicit...