Word: even
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...deals with the history of English literature is, indeed, not out of place; but it is little less than absurd that freshmen at Harvard should have to be instructed in the first principles of composition, or, to put it with painful simplicity, should have to be taught to write even fairly well. And to write what? The absurdity is enhanced by the fact that it is their own native language, which they are so sadly unable to use. If it were French or German, the wonder would be less; but unfortunately it is nothing stranger than their mother tongue, with...
...arrange for a series of lectures treating of the part Harvard has played in colonial and later history. This letter unfortunately was received with no comment and the subject was dropped. The loss suffered by most of us in our lack of knowledge of the historic interest connected with even the various college buildings is much to be lamented. How many of us know which elm in the Yard is the "Rebellion Tree," or why it was so called? How many of us are aware that Lafayette was received by President Kirkland on the steps of University Hall? What...
...tropics are comparatively rare, and the most brilliant are in secluded nooks or cling as epiphytes to the higher branches of the loftiest trees, well out of sight. And lastly, there is nothing in the tropics which can compare with the ever fresh surprise of the miracle of spring, even as it is seen in our austere and whimsical New England. Our plants, growing under such severe conditions, are well worth studying just as examples of organisms which have endured the hardest of all times...
...completeness with which she lives her character in the Cavalliera Rusticana; her quick, vehement, peasant-like gestures; her clumping across the stage in awkward peasant shoes; her subsidence toward the end of the play into a hooded statue of grief, are exhibitions of her talent which will be remembered even longer than the untheatric pathos of her "Camille," or the bewitching gaiety and extraordinarily mobile skill of the coquettish Locandiera...
...unfair to his fellows if he hurts their chances by wilfully incapacitating himself; and to incur probation can hardly be anything but wilful. Through the team, too, the athlete is responsible to the college whose representative he is, and these claims of team and college should be binding even when the claims of common sense and morality above referred to, might be heedlessly set aside. In past years Harvard teams have been known to suffer by the loss of men through probation. Before cause has been given this year we protest against the unfairness of such men, so that protest...