Word: maye
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...instruments which will be used during the eclipse is for the purpose of determining whether it is probable that some of the demands which are classified here as simple, are not really compound, and are separated in the intense heat of the sun. It has been suggested that iron may be a compound of calcium and oxygen, and that these elements may be separated in the sun. So this apparatus will take the light of the very edge of the sun just as the eclipse becomes total, then of the bottom part of the corona, and then of the outer...
...shall be done with this surplus, and it would seem that to no other purpose could it more profitably be devoted than to the support of the freshman crew. I believe it has been the custom of some of the classes in former years, to use any surplus which may remain after the foot-ball season had closed for the foundation of a class fund. It has been by no means, the custom of the majority of the classes, however, to appropriate the surplus to the purpose just mentioned, and I think that Ninety-two would not be acting...
HARVARD ASSEMBLIES. Tickets may be had at 32 Beck Hall Dec. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, between 1.30 and 2 p. m., or upon receipt of subscription by check or P. O. order. Positively no person will be admitted without presenting a ticket at the door. 6t56...
Each body, then, must make out his own list as he goes. But at the outset, a man may safely take those which the whole world has decisively stamped as the best. These would be Homer, Virgil, aeschylus, and Sophocles and. beyond all doubt, Aristophanes; Lucre tires, and Plato. In the middle ages, the Divine Comedy which has most perfectly expressed their thought and their emotions; the prelude to this, Dante's Vita Nuova; the Life of St. Louis, by Joinville, the Romance of the Cid, and the Arthurian Romances. In later times the number of names really great...
There is no harm in not reading very many books. A great many, as Lord Bacon said, may be read by deputy. And the valuable deputy for French is St. Beuve, the purest critic who ever wrote...