Word: formely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...same approval. The lecture deserved it, for, although on account of his audience, Mr. Bowen put his remarks in the shape of an informal talk, yet what he said was sufficient to show that he had the material for an interesting running commentary upon the stereopticon illustrations which form the main feature of the lecture...
Persons have urged that the work of our Literary Supplement would be done much more thoroughly and successfully by a monthly literary magazine, like the Yale Lit and the Nassan Lit. In one way, these persons are quite right. The essays would be presented in a more attractive, permanent form, the proof could be read more carefully, and the printing could be of a better quality of work than we can afford to pay for in a supplement that we give to our subscribers. There is, however, a very strong argument in favor of our Supplement. Our paper...
...literary publications of Yale and Princeton are, therefore, no analogy, and form no example for us whatever. At those colleges, everyone subscribes to the monthlies; but here, a monthly would have a mere handful of subscribers, and would have to depend for funds almost wholly on advertisements, and owing to its small circulation, would not get good work from the best...
...They are Protean in their natures," my guide replied. "They can assume any form, counterfeit any emotion, mock any expressions of feeling. Thus it is that they deceptively adapt themselves to the world, and their duplicity is never discovered. Too many there are that are like this author, but they are growing less and less in number. Silently the celestial policemen, among whom I am one, are carrying them to their reward. They are called the Lotos-Eaters of Earth.- But the East is brightening; the day is near. I must be away...
...decision is very curious when taken in connection with the yearly extension which is given to the elective system in the choice of studies. One would think that there was nothing in a young man's life on which he himself or his parents should be so competent to form an opinion as the time and place at which be should pray to Almighty God, and that there was no duty to which it was more absurd to drive him by law under defined penalties. And yet this is what the college authorities, who are steadily converting Harvard into...