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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...place. The houses are huddled together, small and badly ventilated. They are built of stone and have few windows. The roofs are flat and covered with a sort of cement which is water-proof. The richer natives have houses with tiled roofs. The soldiers of the city are poorly fed and badly clothed, and are of a dull, stolid appearance. The heat in summer is excessive and particularly severe on the Europeans, who generally retire to villas on Mount Lebanon, which overlooks the city. Here the cool breezes are delightful. At the close of the lecture, views of Beirut were...
...that year, considerable attention must have been given to classical history, through the medium of ancient historians and Adams Roman Antiquities. Yale College has always been a stronghold of classical culture. During the first half of the nineteen century probably more students, both at Harvard and Yale, were fed upon the Scotch diet than upon any other historical material. When one contrasts the old-fashioned manuals of Adams and Eschenburg with the water-like "primers" which are everywhere in vogue, it is not surprising that a knowledge of ancient politics is dying out in American schools. In these days, when...
...were getting the food intended for Mr. S-II-v-n's hirelings, as we could hardly conceive it possible that worse food than was set before us was easily obtainable anywhere. However, this betrays a rank and horrible system of persecution and injustice. Imagine the hungry students, being fed on elegant cold slabs of colorless meat, while the poor waiters languish below on the parboiled trimmings! And think, too of the Caucasion slaves of the autocrat of the breakfast table having symposiums at ten or thereabouts! This is monstrous! How can we, who are deprived of the innocently frothing...
...columns today brings pleasant echoes of our anniversary time. The editorial referred to, which appeared in the Courant, was an appeal for a more liberal tone in the Sunday services. It says that "the little benefit derived from the service is generally acknowledged," and that if they are fed on the dry husks of religious conventionalism, they can hardly be expected to develope practical Christianity...
...some concise relation and obedience to universal being, must feel her life included in some larger life, or else she fails; of her best growth and good, and to see how that large life in which hers must be inclosed and out of which it is to be fed, is expressed in these words of the Old Epistles of the Hebrews: "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever." The necessity of which I speak is universal. There is no life which fulfils itself entirely and worthily, except as it is inclosed within the grasp of a life...