Word: finding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...private life at such length, and serve it up as humor, especially when the Freshman candidates are evidently so energetic. if such space could be filled with more ingenious schemes like that proposed for the improvement of the Yard, it would be better. It is very gratifying to find the Lampoon suggesting that graduates make building improvements, even if it does rather suggest a "stale joke," appearing where it does...
...hard to find the merit by which the cover sketch deserves its place. The first-page drawing is a little better, showing some individuality of style. There are several minor sketches, on the other hand, especially one in regard to the Pump, which are apt and amusing...
There are in all thirty fables in the Talmud which have come down in Esop's Fables, until now they are well known folk-lore. In looking at the original source of the fables we find that they came first from India. Then they were taken up by the Greeks, including Esop, and by them handed down to the Romans. Of the 30 fables of the Talmud, 18 can be traced to Classic and Indian origin and 5 to the purely Indian. The remainder are of later growth and of purely Talmudic origin...
...translations form Boethius which show best the literary genius of the King. Many parts depend in no way upon the original text, but are Alfred's own work. Comparing this translation of Boethius with that of Chaucer, some five centuries later, and of Queen Elizabeth, we find it far excels them both, in its finer style, dignity, and simplicity of phrase. In short, Alfred may be said to have founded a fine organic and rhythmical prose in a language which, if not our own, is at least its basis...
...investigations, which will continue for weeks, are at present directed to find whether it will follow the course of such temporary stars, which burst into their full brilliancy almost immediately and gradually fade away -- lasting sometimes weeks and sometimes years. The Observatory's first trial shows its brightness to have greatly increased by Friday night over that announced by Dr. Anderson for the preceding evening until on Friday it was much brighter than the polar star. The exact position on three nights has been measured with the meridian circle and the spectrum has been founed by a photographic attachment...