Word: lessness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Venetians and Florentines in the times of their great progress in art we are apt to think of their life as particularly bright; perhaps even more so than our own. But they were greatly influenced by the Greeks and if we examine all art we find it more or less dependent upon the Greeks. The great features of the Greeks were simplicity, truth and beauty. And to this they added the ability to express the inward thought in visible form. We have more or less lost the spirit of the Greeks and our sentiments are mostly confined to christianity...
...been larger against them. Ninety-two carried the ball to the 15 yard line in the first rush and soon after secured a touchdown. Goal. Score 6-0. By a run of White's and a pass to McDonald, another touchdown but no goal was scored for '92 in less than 3 minutes. Score 10-0. Another touchdown was got by Putnam. Score 14-0. After the ball had stayed dangerously near Roxbury's goal for some time, Sullivan carried it the length of the field but was unable to cross the line. Both sides then kicked, but '92 soon...
...given five yards on a foul. Blanchard and Fearing rushed. A bad pass gave Williams the ball. Cranston tackled well and made Williams lose ground. Time was then called. Score 20-0. Fearing made a rush of thirty yards followed by a rush by Lee who scored in less than three minutes. Goal. Score 26-0. Williams got the ball on a fumble and Cox kicked. Harvard's ball. Lee by good dodging gained forty-five yards. Williams secured the ball, and kicked and Harvard regained it. Blanchard gained ground, but a poor pass gave Williams the ball. Durand rushed...
Next Friday evening Mr. William Cranston Lawton will deliver under the auspices of the Harvard Classical Club a public lecture in Sever 11, on the proposed excavation of Delphi under the direction of the Archaeological Institute of America. Less than a year ago Professor Norton delivered in the same place an address, in which, after making mention of the past and present aspect of the site of the ancient temple of Delphi, he gave some account of the attitude of the Greek government toward the American proposal to undertake investigation on Greek soil. Since that time matters have been gradually...
...Conditions much less favorable for success of government management in a Republic. (a) Difficulty of detecting bad management. Impossibility for the public at large to do so.- Hadley, Railroad Transportation, pp. 57-60. (b) Legitimate differences in charges would not be submitted to under government ownership in a republic. Cheap transportation to a great extent dependent on such differences-Hadley, Railroad Transportation, p. 112. (c) Certain to be degradation of railroad offices into rewards for party service-Hudson, The Railways and the Republic, p. 327; Spofford, The Railroad Question...