Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Alas that the reality is so far from embodying your ideal! The twelve hundred books stand boldly out into the room. Simplicity, to speak moderately, reigns everywhere. She appears, in not her most attractive form, in the Franklin stove. She stares blankly at you from her "BOOKS RETURNED," and "BOOKS RECEIVED," which are pasted on the wall over the narrow mantel-piece, and which indicate that there is to be found the connection between the Annex and the Harvard Library. The dimity curtains and patch-covered window-seats cannot be offended at being dubbed "simple." But simplicity abdicates her sway...
...marked by particularly brilliant work on either side. Harvard played with unexpected weakness at first, Ross of the Somervilles being allowed to capture three easy goals, before the Harvard defense seemed able to meet his system of attack play. For the Somervilles, Ross and Davis did by far the best playing. Most of the other men seemed inferior to their Harvard opponents. The game was won by the Somervilles by three goals thrown in short order by Ross during the first half, and by 1 goal in the second made by the same player. Harvard's 2 goals were mane...
...bebelief that a fine gaited horse could be instantaneously photographed, and still show the agreeable action which all horse-lovers admire, and have been habituated to see drawn by artists, instead of the ungainly positions usually resulting from the instantaneous process." This object has been gained, so far at least as arrested motion can convey the idea of motion. There are fourteen of these illustrations, representing the horse running, trotting, cantering, jumping, etc. Col. Dodge has succeeded in giving much excellent advice on the management of a horse, while at the same time holding the reader's attention...
...symphony, etc. Haydn was the first to create classical works in these forms; the string quartette he carried to high perfection, and began the development of symphony. Mozart marks an advance upon Haydn. His symphonies are richer, and express greater intensity of feeling; his genius was more versatile and far reaching...
...high. So that, of late, complaints have been made that the Naval Academy in particular was becoming a school of general science, and losing too much its characteristic peculiarities as a naval school. But we think this complaint is unfounded. The naval officer of the present must have a far broader education to enable him to perform his duties intelligently and keep informed in the discoveries of the scientific that are constantly being and which so vitally affect naval interests, than was required by the heroes of fifty or even twenty-five years...