Word: giant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ferns have been gathered into one room. An Australian fern with a trunk four feet thick and a silver leaved fern ten feet high, are the most interesting of these plants. Among the cacti is an excellent specimen of a giant cactus, which was obtained last fall...
...celebrating and a wretched nuisance to Cambridge citizens. Often they are far more than a nuisance. It might frequently happen that at the time of the celebration some persons living near the Yard might be seriously ill, and perhaps dependent upon quiet for their lives. The firing of giant crackers or guns near the house of such persons would be a piece of thoughtlessness that would be almost criminal. During the celebration the other night it is known that several people who were very sick were badly disturbed by the noise fo guns. The only other thing that is expected...
...will not go into details, but every man must feel what we mean in saying this, and realize that it is true. Good rousing cheering and marching in the Yard with the band is a right way of celebrating, but the firing of giant crackers and every description of firearms in the streets of the city is distinctly a wrong way. The use of arms and firecrackers in celebrating is an entirely new thing at college. Even in the old days, when no one ever complained that there was not enthusiasm enough at Harvard, these things were not used. Besides...
...attitude in regard to the track games, and in fact to any branch of athletics in which she claims that men in the college department alone are eligible, may aptly be compared to the position of a dwarf who considers that he is doing a favor to a giant by entering into a contest with him, with the big man's hands tied behind his back...
...inspiration of Phedre, as with the Greek and Latin plays of old, came from the church. The play of Euripides, as we feel the giant force of the ringing sentences, while it holds us entranced, yet makes us shudder with horror at the uncouth roughness of the plot. The characters are in the main the same, the only marked difference being in the relative importance given to Phedre and Hyppolites; in the Greek, the play centres about the man, our only feeling towards Phedre being of the utmost contempt, such only as we might feel for the lowest of human...