Word: likes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...delight of the generation which built it. The old president's house on Harvard street has since been made a boarding house, as have several other former residences of the faculty members. Most of the College buildings were in the Yard, and Massachusetts was a dormitory, with two entrances, like Holllis and Stoughton. Only half of College House was then standing, the part adjoining Church street having been built since...
...story which revolves around Phedre is an ancient one. Like many of the greatest masterpieces of the dramatic art, Racine's tragedy is founded upon the heroic fable. Racine had for prototypes the plays of Euripides, in Greek, and of Seneca, in Latin. He differs widely from Euripides, who has a different hero, but he is very similar to Seneca, both in treatment of plot and character. Profiting by the experience of his two classical models, Racine has given us the finest profane tragedy of the French drama...
...feel the greatest respect for those who have done their duty, who have gamely fought an up-hill fight, and though defeated, left no stone unturned by which they could ensure success. Then if we are defeated, don't explain, don't excuse it, but bear it like men, grimly and silently, and go into the struggle next time with more unflagging perseverance and a deeper determination. Yet victory is better than the most honorable defeat. Do not adopt the theory that it really doesn't matter whether we win or lose, for it does matter and it rests with...
...classic fables have come down from early times under the name of Esop's fables; but Esop, like Homer, is an unknown person. The first known collections of Greek fables was made about 300 B. C., by a certain Demetrius. Upon his version succeeding collections were made, with additions of tales from the East. From Greece the fables spread to Rome and thence over Europe, until in the Middle Ages several collections of tales were made in England and France, notably by Romulus Imperator and Marie de France...
...Davis boat for the sophomore crew will be finished in about two weeks. It is made of cedar, has a double gunwale, and in all other respects is just like the '94 'varsity shell, which was used by the freshman crew last year in the race at New London...