Word: lived
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...study of archaeology, by the study of history of any kind, facts which possess a deep significance of their own are laid before us. If our minds are too dull or too lazy to form the necessary conclusions from them, or if we fancy that we can live safely, while we are stumbling along without a knowledge of the perils that have gone before - and that may come hereafter, we are a very pitiful set indeed; and we ought to have a delicacy about venturing anywhere in the neighborhood of mirrors...
...style of living set by the large majority of students who come from wealthy or well-to do families is such that unless the poorer students live in much better style than the $500 limit, they will be very uncomfortable. In fact there is an aristocratic, moneyed atmosphere about Harvard which is very uncongenial...
...students at Exeter who live in the West have engaged a special car as far as Chicago...
Some time ago it was our unpleasant duty to criticise the speaking and the speakers at the Harvard Union. It is our pleasant task now to congratulate the directors of the Union on the way it has been conducted this fall. The last debate was as lively and interesting one as is usually held in a presidential year, and the large number remaining to the close - an unusually late hour for the Union - shows how keen an interest was maintained to the close. The Union under good auspices, is a very useful organization, and we are glad to see live...
...this is a confession of their failure to educate the people in a very important matter, and shows surely that they refuse to live level with their own times. It is quite as possible to teach oratory at Cambridge as it is to teach chemistry or mathematics, and with quite as satisfactory results. There are to-day and here methods and systems and teachers of oratory adequate to the need, and if Harvard objects that these systems are fragmentary or unfinished, she has both money and leisure enough to take them in hand with her own chosen officials and make...