Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fifth hare and hounds run, given by the H. A. A., was run yesterday afternoon. Nineteen men, with G. L. Batchelder '92 as master of hounds, strted out following the trail laid by G. Lowell '92 and D. W. Fenton '95, the hares, who were given seven minutes start of the hounds. The weather was perfect for this kind of sport and a sharp pace was set by the runners...
Petrarch was the first great figure of the Renaissance. He is distinct from Dante not it his Italian poems nor in his love for Laura, but in his being possessed by the passion of the Renaissance. Virgil is not only a guide but a master, a supreme authority, whose style, whose every peculiarity must be absorbed as must the whole spirit of Greek and Roman civilization. Petrarch assumes the Roman point of view and speaks of the barbarians, meaning the French and Germans. These were the nations who had founded great Universities, had developed Gothic architecture and had produced...
...said the English public school is in no sense a free school. It is very hard to give a definition of it, but generally speaking they are endowed, church of England boarding schools, the head master and many of the subscribers of which are clergymen. According as the definition varies so does the number of these schools, but in all there are some thirty-five. The larger schools have many more scholars than our own, and the attainments of the boys are greater. At all these schools chapel life is a most essential feature. Dr. Temple's superannuation which fixes...
...slow hunt had been decided upon and G. Batchelder as master of the hounds kept his pack together very satisfactorily. The day was perfect for the sport and the enthusiasm of the runners made the pace sharp...
...This is the whole record of human life; from childish innocence through youthful dissatisfaction, disgust aids It consciousness to sonship with God. But there is another call, the call of the bride. The bride is humanity, that humanity where there is no bond or free, white or back, master or servant but one brotherhood of God. This humanity was realized in the of Jesus Christ...