Word: landed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...beauties and mysteries of an ideal Oriental Paradise concluding his description with a humorous satire on the misadventures of an Oxford professor of Arabic who in imagination has been transferred to the heaven of his studies and there meets with the author, as described in the following All the land is misty and fragrant with the perfume of the softest Latakia, and the gardens are musical with the bubbling of countless naghiles; and I must say that to the Christian soul which enters that paradise the whole place has, certainly, a rather curions air, as of a highly transcendental Cremorne...
...Lincoln and St. John Colleges are smaller than the average and of but little interest with the exception that the former contains a manuscript copy of the Wycliffe bible and was the Alma Mater of John Wesley, while the latter treasures the hat and walking stick used by Archibishop Land on his way to execution...
Tolman Wheeler, of Chicago, has donated a valuable tract of land in the western division of that city, and advanced $290,000 towards the erection of a preparatory school under the care of the Episcopal church. The design is to be after that of Oxford, a prominent feature of the structure being a chapel and a library to contain 10,000 volumes...
...very well for the "fresh-water" and second-rate colleges, whose only object is to cause a steady stream of gold dollars to flow into the pockets of their managers, but it will not do for a college like Harvard, which aspires to be the first university in the land. The duty of a true university is not to follow the bent of public opinion and yield to the demands of the agitators of the time but to lead public opinion. "We should consult the needs of the time and place in which we live." Exactly! But we must...
...Hellenism and Hebraism reached the height it has reached at the present moment and in Cambridge. If "sweetness and light," if the power of "seeing this as they really are" is at present the great need of England, how much more are these things lacking in America, in the land of practical ideas? Says Mr. Arnold in the fourth chapter of "Culture and Anarchy": "For more than two hundred years the main stream of man's advance has moved towards knowing himself and the world, seeing things as they are, spontaneity of consciousness (Hellenism); the main impulse of a great...