Word: great
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cricket club has been formed at Bryn Mawr College, a college similar to Vassar. It has a large and active membership, as the girls take great interest in the game...
...were intended to have been surmounted by bags of earth to break the force of the shells, but as time failed for the completion of the works, bags of potatoes taken from the peasants who were hurrying into Paris, were used instead of bags of earth, and so great was the lack of provisions among the soldiers that they were forced actually "to eat their defences." Although there were between two and three hundred thousand men around Paris, the number of real soldiers was not more than forty thousand. Among the troops the National Guard of Paris was conspicuous...
MATH. F.- Students who have copies of Goodwin's Statistics of which they are willing to dispose, will confer a great favor by leaving them at Sever's or the Co-operative...
...public, but they are designed especially to benefit students taking either Greek B or Greek C. Professor Wright had the close attention of his audience throughout, and the help gained from his lecture by those students about to take up the study of Homer cannot fail to be great...
...public and private assemblies- the bard or rhapsode was given the place of honor, and it was his part to recite again and again to the eager listeners the story of Achilles, Ajax, or Odysseus. In this way the people in every part of Greece became familiar with the great poems which were finally transcribed and carefully handed down from generation to generation. In the schools children had to learn the poems by heart, not for the intellectual good which would result from this practice, but to gain an idea of the moral truths which Homer propounded, and to learn...