Word: even
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Copeland began his lecture on Abraham Lincoln last evening by stating briefly and frankly the exceedingly low and poor beginnings of Lincoln's career. Lincoln's formal education was in fragments, which made up altogether less than a year's schooling. The Bible, however, Aesop's Fables, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Weems's Life of Washington, and a history of the United States, for reading; a wooden fire shovel scraped clean and a coal for writing materials, enabled his eager intelligence to make a better start than many a more favored boy achieves in the best schools...
...hope that no member of the class of Ninety-six needs to be urged to take the opportunity of trying for a Commencement Part. It is a service that the class expects from those of its members who are qualified by their record to undertake it. Even if men do not fully appreciate the personal advantage and honor that is to be gained in taking part in the Commencement exercises of the University, they must certainly feel that they are under a strong obligation to their fellows, who are looking to them to uphold the honor of their class...
...rejecting of the proposed three mile run will certainly give considerable satisfaction to the spectators of the annual athletic contest, if not to the athletes themselves. A very long race is at best not an exciting contest to watch. The pace is necessarily slow when compared even with the mile run, and before many laps are passed the race generally changes to a procession. Then a three mile race is altogether too great a strain to put upon college athletes, most of whom are under twenty-one years of age. There are probably few men in the University...
Yesterday afternoon in the Fogg Art Museum Professor Lyon read some most interesting letters translated from the Assyrian. They were written by the Kings of Babylon, Assyria, Egypt and other countries, and date at least from 1500 B. C., While others are of even more ancient times. Egyptian scholars recognize some of these tablets as despatches written by the Pharoahs. They cast a remarkable light on both the social and political conditions of the great nations which existed long before Moses was born...
...resulting combination of England and Germany in the support of the gold standard, both of them selling silver and buying gold, compelled even France to restrict silver coinage and finally to cease entirely from coining that metal...