Word: hesperus
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...ignorance concerning the loveliest of the stars, because the calendar devised by his ingenious priests was a Venus calendar; any knowing citizen of that remarkable civilization was aware that five Venus years were practically equivalent to eight sun years, that eight days elapsed between the last appearance of Hesperus in the west and the first appearance of Phosphorus in the east and that the morning of this first appearance in the east was a morning to be feared, since the light of Venus possessed the power to slay. If the last item implies the existence of what we should call...
...Garland contributes two pieces of verse: one in simple "Wreek of the Hesperus" style, seems strangely old fashioned among its up-to-date surroundings; the other, "Old Books to Read," a happy treatment of a theme that never grows stale. Mr. Bradley Randall's "Memoir of my Dead Past" deals with a phase of experience too remote from the reviewer for him to pass judgment on its truth. But it is clearly the kind of thing that must be handled delicately if at all: and it is hardly suitable material for the experiment of an apprentice. Mr. R. S. Mitchell...
...follows: L. Litchfield, '85, "Rufus Choate," by Wendell Phillips. T. H. Root, '85, "Wreck of the Arctic," by H. W. Beecher. E. T. Sanford, '85, "Enmity towards Great Britain," by Rufus Choate. J. W. Richardson, '86, "Treason of Slavery," by Carl Schurz. D. Kelleher, "The Wreck of the Hesperus," by H. W. Longfellow. I. Dickerman, '86, "Sectional Services in the late War," by Caleb Cushing. E. Stevens, '86, "White Murder Trial," by Webster. T. Rogers, "Aux Haliens," by Owen Meredith. Mr. H. D. Jones, "Dr. Marigold," by Dickens. After the last selection, which was a reading, Mr. Jones was warmly...