Word: even
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...were put on duty in the yard to quell disturbance. Their presence was held by many to have helped, not to quell, but to excite disturbance. This year the officers of the University have decided to trust to the students implicitly. Not a policeman will be in the Yard; even the regular watchman has been told not to interfere. The University officers have practically said that, if students can control themselves, they shall have the opportunity of showing it. How that opportunity is used will be momentous, not only for the present occasion, but for student influence with the Faculty...
...must inevitably yield the students of distant states to their local institutions. And yet Harvard has maintained her reputation as a centre of learning so effectively that last year she attracted an increased number of students in the Central, Western and Southern sections of the country. This year, despite even the financial depression which is so serious a check to higher education, there is no decrease, but rather a strong increase. A moment's thought on the conditions under which this increase has been made reveals what a great tribute it is to the strength of Harvard...
...many meanings and the sould itself in a single one of its many functions. For the sould is not only that which gives form, but that which gives life, the mysterious and pervasive essence always in itself beautiful, not always so in the shapes which it informs, but even then full of infinite suggestion. In literature it is what we call genius, an insoluble ingredient which kindles, lights, inspires and transmits impulsion to other minds, wakens energies in them hitherto latent, and makes them startlingly aware that they too may be parts of the controlling purpose of the world...
...learns it. The day will come, nay, it is dawning already, when it will be understood that the masterpieces of whatever language are not to be classed by an arbitrary standard, but stand on the same level in virtue of being masterpieces; that thought, imagination and fancy may make even a patois acceptable to scholars; that the poets of all climes and of all ages "sing to one clear harp in divers tones;" and that the masters of prose and the masters of verse in all tongues teach the same lesson and exact the same...
...lovely and enduring. No, they are not antagonists, but by their points of disparity, of likeness, or contrast, they can be best understood, perhaps understood only through each other. The scholar must have them both, but may not he who has not leisure to be a scholar find profit even in the lesser of the two, if that only...