Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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These students have learned also that they receive a good equivalent for what they give that the workingman can add to their store of knowledge and to the breadth of their horizon. To hear the topics of the day discussed by a group of intelligent workingmen is of itself no slight privilege...
Next Saturday evening at the Harvard Observatory, the students in the astronomy classes will assist in making observations on the meteor shower, which will probably be visible at that time. During the evening, the meteors will appear to be coming from the eastern horizon; and towards Sunday morning they will radiate from a point a little to the southeast of the zenith, in the constellation of Leo. This point will rise about midnight. If the weather is favorable, photographs will be taken to determine the height above the surface of the earth at which the meteors first become visible...
...University have any real acquaintance with the history of Harvard during the last forty years. Every one of course is familiar with the great events that have marked that period, but very few know well the story of the gradual changes that have taken place as the horizon of the College has widened, both as regards the student life and the government of the University. The men that have been chosen to speak on the last three decades of Harvard's history, are all men who are most familiar through close personal connection with the subjects that they...
...History and Literature," Prince Wolkonsky had a closely attentive and appreciative audience. The object of the lecture was that period of Russian intellectual culture when it enters into the general stream of universal literature by the channel of sentimentalism and romanticism. After having given a picture of the literary horizon of western Europe at the opening of the nineteenth century, the lecturer spoke of the first two exponents of romanticism in Russia: the historian Karamsin Joukovsky. The former wrote the first Russian sentimental novels-among these being "Poor Lizzie," over which contemporaries have shed many tears. The latter...
...Student Volunteer Work is one of the natural effects of the influences increasingly in operation, of late years, at Harvard. As study becomes ever freer and more invigorating, and the appeal to purpose more effective, the horizon of the student broadens and his pulses quicken with a desire to be of some account to his fellow men. The turning of the thought of the time more and more to the welfare of the masses is doubtless an influence from without, affecting in this same direction the university and the student The result, thoroughly inevitable and legitimate, is an unaffected humanitarian...