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Word: german (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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MORE than four hundred new German books have been received this week at the College Library, and so rapidly is the number of books there increasing that enough shelves to hold two thousand volumes are soon to be added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/20/1874 | See Source »

AMONG the most recent additions to the College Library are between two and three hundred volumes, the gift of Dr. Green, of Groton. A thousand German books are expected this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/6/1874 | See Source »

...some excellent saying, give it expression. Do not be ashamed of these emotions. Cherish the natural sentiment of personal devotion to the teacher who calls out your better powers. It is a great delight to serve an intellectual master. We Americans are but too apt to lose this happiness. German and French students get it. If ever in after years you come to smile at the youthful reverence you paid, believe me, it will be with tears in your eyes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE YEARS. | 10/23/1874 | See Source »

...attention of all Freshmen who know German is called to the existence of a society, Der Verein, for the purpose of keeping up the knowledge of the language, and also affording opportunity for pleasant intercourse with upper-class men. All who wish to join will send their names and address to 391 Harvard St. or 19 Holworthy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/9/1874 | See Source »

...other side, Buchner and the materialists seem not to have progressed beyond the Chinese, of three thousand years before Christ, who recognized in the universe two elements, one active, one inert, - force and matter; but perhaps came nearer the truth than our German contemporaries in recognizing these elements as divine intelligences rather than dead and aimless. The business of science is, indeed, analysis. It returns us elements for the wholes we give it. The danger is lest we lose the former, so much the more important. "The sense of the glory of the heavens is worth more than the physicist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHI BETA KAPPA ORATION. | 10/9/1874 | See Source »

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