Word: extended
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...third motive of knowledge is the attempt to satisfy the intellectual appetite. Still even this motive cannot be wholly approved, since it is selfish and tends to destroy the balance and evenness of physical development. There is yet another motive-to extend the boundaries of knowledge by the truth-seeker, but this cannot be the right aim since the object truth is unattainable and it is not right for us to try to find what we cannot reach. Truth is unattainable because what we do know as certain compared to what we do not know is insignificant...
...management of the paper will have changed hands. It shall be our earnest endeavor to keep the paper up to its standard throughout the year 1888; but to do this we look to the college for literary and financial support-the former especially among the lower classes. We extend our best wishes to instructors and students alike for a "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- You published an editorial yesterday complaining of the obstinacy the faculty has shown in refusing to extend the midwinter vacation. It seems to me that, after seeing year after year that men who live at a distance from Cambridge leave two or three days before the recess begins and return two or three after it ends, the faculty would see the advisability of extending the vacation. Whether they do or not, men will continue to cut several days at each end of such a short Christmas vacation as is given us this year; and anyone who views...
GLOBE THEATRE SUNDAY EVENING SERVICES.- All those who have sent notice of their intention to join the chorus are requested to meet for a short rehearsal at Appleton Chapel at 5.30 to-morrow afternoon, immediately after the vesper service. The committee on music extend a general invitation to all those men in college who can sing to join the chorus and to attend the rehearsal to-morrow...
...members of his family we extend our most sincere sympathy in deep affliction...