Word: lies
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...attractive, it is distinctly better if the surroundings are entirely in keeping with it. We can never hope for this; Harvard Square and Harvard Street must always be with us. But it would be a pleasure if along the banks of the Charles, where all our boating interests lie, we could enjoy the comforts and beauties of a series of partly artificial and partly natural parks. We should soon grow to associate more closely the river with the campus and yards; and college life might thus be increased at least by one pleasant association...
...absurd to expect them to capture all three places. Merrill and Pinkham will have a hard fight for second place with the chances somewhat in Merrill's favor. Wright of Yale will of course take first in the half mile run, while Harvard's hopes lie in Corbin for second and Batchelder for third, possibly Lakin. These two events ought to give Harvard a fair lead over Yale...
...Wilder.Fakefake; parent of Lotus, an eligible widower, parlor magician by trade, Frederick Bruegger. Rollo Fauntleroy, undergraduate magician through business hours, in private a hero who cannot lie, but does...
...occasion of Mr. Black's lecture, the subject being "Carlyle." Up to 1881, the date of his death, Thomas Carlyle was undoubtedly the head of English letters. His reputation is based on the contents of thirty-four volumes and scattered through them disconnectedly lie the ideas he had to express...
...reasons for the poets' greatness, lie in the fact that he adequately expressed in words, what he felt and saw. Whether he was the greatest man that ever lived or not, is a question for controversy, but I think no one will deny that he was the greatest expresser the world has ever seen. He remains to this time the world's greatest achievement. To adapt a phase of Sir Richard Stelle's, we may say, that to know Shakespeare is a liberal education - a revelation of truth. The magic of his genius will confer a blessing upon the young...