Word: formely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that they are not fit to come to college, but should have another year or two at the primary school. We do not want such overgrown babies at Harvard. They should remember that to insult an instructor in the performance of his duty is a very low and despicable form of wit. Moreover, it will not be tolerated here. The freshmen had better take this warning to heart...
...schemes: the earlier consisted of black figures on the red surface of the vase, and later, the vase was covered with a black glaze upon which the figures were incised so that the lines were in red. The date of manufacture can be determined with considerable accuracy by the form of the letters in the inscriptions. The subjects were taken mostly from the Homeric poems and also from other similar epics which are now lost. The artist seldom follows the text closely, often departing widely from it according to his fancy and his knowledge of the limitations...
...until nine o'clock every evening. The paper for the following day is all made up by that hour, and it is a great inconvenience to the managing editor to find a string of notices of absolutely unnecessary length crowding out one of the other articles, and upsetting the form which is ready for the press. Most of the notices can be written in a few lines, whereas we often receive them full of superfluous words and sentences, making enough for half a column, and giving us the choice of cutting them down or leaving them out-and we wish...
...Huxley has been more influenced by Darwin than Darwin by Huxley. Huxley rejoiced to call himself an agnostic. So did Darwin, although Darwin at times leaned toward theism. Our great teachers at Harvard have been great theists, and no doubt Gray was greatly influenced by his companions. The theistic form of evolution seems never to have disturbed Asa Gray's faith. I wish to say that through his whole life Asa Gray was a student of theology; but Darwin said he had no time for studying religious truths. Gray observed Sunday; Darwin did not. As to the growth...
Prof. Goodale gives tonight the first of his twelve lectures in the Lowell Institute course. Subject: "Forests and Forest Products." Tomorrow night the second one will be given on "Structure and Form...