Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...good which would come to the University from the recent regulations passed by the board. Mr. Roger Walcott, a member of the Board of Overseers, gave, in an informal way, the reasons which had prompted the board to take its recent action. Mr. Walcott's views were far from radical, it was plain that his audience was in sympathy with him in the stand which he took in regard to the large majority of the recent votes. He appeared to take the stand that the system of government in regard to attendance at recitations now in vogue at Harvard, although...
...Jerks at the beginning badly and goes back too far...
...Goes back too far, breaks his arms too soon, and rows mechanically. Should put more life in his work. His rowing is dead...
...become a well-established custom at Harvard to raise by general subscription large sums of money whenever they are required for the maintenance and welfare of some special department. So far this has been the case only with those departments whose workshop and laboratory is not the college library. Now it is the turn of those branches of learning-of philology, literature, philosophy, political economy, history, mathematics, and music-for the very existence of which the reading-room in Gore Hall is a necessity, to call upon Harvard's many and kind friends to come to the aid of their...
...should be their duty to follow. It will be seen that from their customs, by every one of which the mind was trained to look up to Homer as a master, there could be no other result than that the Greeks should come to look upon him as one far above the professional teacher of ethics and morality. They thought of him as the fountain head of all virtue and goodness, and they therefore defied and worshipped him. Through all the ages Homer's place in literature has received as little injury from the hands of assailants as his statue...