Word: latterly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Realism," in which the writer, after saying that Balzac tried to crush the life out of French prose - Balzac, the one man to me who can understand and describe the emotions of a woman - that the French revolution "overthrew in one vast ruin Church, State and literature," in which latter word seems to be included not only Montesquieu, Voltaire and J. J. Rousseau, who, by the way, led the revolution, but also the German writers, Lessing. Schiller, Goethe. The latter, I may add, like the later English writers, seems to have drawn much inspiration from that same overthrow - after saying...
...enter. The door lies open, but we have not the courage to advance and explore the unknown regions. The possibilities and chances of life are of two sorts. Those we strive after and desire to possess, and those to which we turn a deaf ear. The latter are continually knocking for admittance. They are love, truth, tenderness, purity, faith, fidelity, etc. Sometimes they gain admittance to a man's heart, but oftener are driven away by the all-absorbing cares and duties of every-day life. It is so even in religion. Religion is everywhere seeking ingress to the heart...
...committee went to Horace Wall, the proprietor of the New Haven Opera House, and desired his co-operation to put up a flag belonging to the class of '89. They also purchased nearly 200 seats in the front row of the opera house. Mr. Wall accepted the latter, but declined the former proposition as he had been warned by Fire Marshal Kennedy that such an exhibition of the flag would have the same effect on the sophomore class as the showing of a red flag to an enraged bull, so he told them: "No flags, boys, if you please...
...disagreeable alternatives: either that Yale desires to emulate the big boy in the primary class and have a chance to "lick" all the little boys without interference; or, as the Courant fitly says, Yale men "are altogether too prone to imagine other colleges prejudiced against" them. This latter alternative is rather the worse of the two, for the bully often outgrows his youthful failings, but the suspicious man is always shunned and disliked in return for his timidity. Yet we are forced to accept the latter proposition, for we cannot consider that Yale will be content to override her inferiors...
...match between the club team and the former '86 team resulted in an overwhelming victory for the latter, by the score of 78 to 46. The conditions were 25 birds to a man, each team consisting of four men. In spite of the blinding snow-storm the veterans did some remarkable shooting, breaking, in the last round, 38 out of a possible 40. After the match sweepstake shooting followed, in which the club team braced up and made their visitors pay dearly for their previous victory...