Word: likings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...clear, vigorous and wholesome. Two lovers quarrel and separate, but are again joined at a crisis in the life of the heroine. Simple and straightforward, "Ruth" is the type of story that the undergraduate reader thoroughly enjoys. Very different from "Ruth," is J. P. Sanborn's frail story, "Conclusions." Like Cyrano de Bergerac, the writer may be said to "set forth to capture a star and then to stop to pick a flower of rhetoric." In style and treatment, "Conclusions" is good and clever. But it has the tone of the over-done, and throughout it there is constant striving...
...third, like the first, is painted in tempera, and is an original of the school of Ferarra, representing the adoration of the Magi. It may have been painted by Lorenzo de Costa, who was an important master of Ferarra's school...
...Department of Comparative Literature in conjunction with the Modern Language Department issued a circular in February of this year asking for subscriptions to enable them to establish a Lowell Memorial Library of like nature to the Child Memorial Library. The answer has been such as to accomplish the object and the books will be transferred, within a few days, from Elmwood to the Library...
...placing all the various managers' departments under charge of a single graduate secretary and a treasurer. To the latter position, Walter Camp '80, has been appointed. The system of undergraduate managers will still be kept, but the managers will be under the treasurer's control. This plan is somewhat like the method here. Columbia has also seen the advantages of such an arrangement, and has recently formed a similar union of athletic teams...
...question of immortality is a question of the permanence of the individual man. To solve the mystery of immortality, we must solve the mystery of individuality Existence implies individuality; but it is difficult for us to discover this, since we can not separate like and different aspects of our known world. We can not discover by our senses that difference, which lies deeper than all likeness. In the circle of family and friends we feel individuality, but can not define it by thought. In other words, individuality is our ideal, but not our reality, and it is neither describable...