Word: medium
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...this adulated idol is far from being happy. He sees her subjected to and caught in "Les Tenailles" of wedlock, and believes here to be oppressed by "La Loi de I'Homme" Against this subjection and oppression of woman, his sense of justice revolts, and from them, through the medium of his writings, has he sought to free here. The Roman law as it is manifested and re-imbodied in the Napoleonic code, appears to him unjust. He would like to emancipate women entirely, and he desires also to have French social legislation framed after the pattern of the American...
...method of treating individuals is notable. Professor Wendell does not take Holmes, Bryant, Whitman, and Longfellow and treat them as unrelated individuals, but takes the work of each as a special medium through which to see American character. The great fault of previous looks on American literature has been that they have over-estimated the merits of American authors. Professor Wendell, though thoroughly American in spirit, is almost too reluctant in his praise of our best literature...
...first cross country run, held yesterday afternoon, brought out 122 men. The whole squad went together under W. G. Clerk '01, E. W. Mills 3S., and O. W. Richardson 2L., as leaders. A medium pace was taken and there was no break at the finish. The course was up Oxford street beyond Porter Station to the brick church and back to the Gymnasium by Massachusetts avenue. The time for the run was 13 minutes...
...Bulletin will appeal, as before, to those graduates of Harvard who wish to keep more or less constantly informed of current University events, who wish authoritative news of the progress of the various athletic interests, and who will find in the paper a convenient medium for notices and for interchanges of graduate opinion...
...competition. Returns from other colleges show that Harvard has lost the championship, which she held last year, to Columbia, who has a total of 59,489.4 for the fifty tests, or 5,813.4 points more than Harvard, who now holds second place. Columbia won on a better average of medium records, her best man standing fifth in the intercollegiate list. Minnesota won third place with 52,489.3 points; Amherst s fourth with 49,953.5, and Wesleyan fifth with...