Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...would seem, therefore, that putting the whole matter on the basis of loyalty to the athletes who represent us, some general sentiment should be started to stop these unreasonable disturbances which occur with startling frequency. If a general sentiment is not effective there are other methods of suppression, less gentle, but perfectly justifiable...
...print this morning a communication from the President of the Harvard Memorial Society which deserves the attention of undergraduates. Although most of us are more or less familiar with the good work which the Society has done to preserve the records and traditions of the College, we have few occasions when we can show our appreciation and interest in tangible form. The idea of celebrating the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Harvard is a novel one and one which furnishes many possibilities for unique and effective ceremonies. We know that undergraduates will join heartily in any celebration...
...summing up, Mr. Murray said that the races which built up Homer, at length outgrew him, but that the end of the epoch was not a mere cessation, but a change to a language less beautiful, but more explicit...
...petition of 50 men, or at the discretion of the class officers, any motion passed at a meeting of less than half the class shall be submitted to canvass...
...interesting to trace the various evidences of expurgation as we have them in the "Iliad," to show the spirit of the Homeric Age. All indications prove that the "Iliad" was considerably expurgated, whereas the "Odyssey" underwent a less stringent process of revision. Although all the early myths point to many barbarous practices among the ancient Greeks, we see slight traces of them in the "Iliad." The poem is practically free from pictures of human sacrifice or torture, whereas in the "Odyssey" we have one situation very nearly approaching torture...