Word: following
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will then adjourn to the plantations and the nurseries of the Arboretum for an informal outdoor study of the plants. It is not proposed that the instruction given in these meetings shall be technical, and a knowledge of descriptive botany is not essential for persons who wish to follow them. The intention is to indicate by comparison the easiest means of distinguishing the common native trees and shrubs as they appear in this part of the country, and of recognizing the foreign species which have been introduced into our gardens. The ornamental and useful properties of these trees and shrubs...
...question is too often dismissed in this way merely to avoid the personal inconvenience which it is well known would follow upon a really fair decision. The strict application of theory to practice in the college world demands a disregard of one's temporary convenience which to many students would seem little less than brutal. An ideal is such a persistently determined affair that one shrinks from encountering it. When a man knows he is honorable, why expose himself to the unpleasant suggestion that he is not? The hint that his estimate of himself has been too high...
...have gone up to this time in the Divine Comedy, said Professor Norton, Dante has travelled through the regions of Hell and Purgatory in a world of realities, where all was visible and tangible, but from this time on we are to follow him through a spiritual world, and to the journey we must bring greater imagination than has been necessary heretofore. Up to this time the experience of Dante in the world of the dead has been preternatural; from this time on it is supernatural. That there is much in this part of the Divine Comedy that will seem...
...engaged to Exemplicus. They arrange, however, that Cupid shall wound Proserpina with a dart, and thus cause her to fall in love with the first man she sees. To make sure that Pluto shall be the man, it is decided that he shall put on his invisible cloak, follow Cupid until the shot is fired, then throw off his invisible cloak and declare his love to the helpless Proserpina...
...necessity for a larger permanent endowment, the second claims that what is most wanted is "a well matured and comprehensive plan for the development of the whole University." The series of letters has attracted great attention among both alumni and undergraduates, and it is probable that material results will follow in the assistance which will be given to the work of the Alumni University Fund Committee...