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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...often hear our elders regret that we no longer live in that age of poetry in which they lived twenty or thirty years ago. No one can deny that there is not that atmosphere about us to-day that used to rouse the enthusiasm and stimulate the nobler aspirations of those who were young in the first half of this century. How many causes have wrought this change any one can tell who breathes the commercial air of America. But there are still among us men in whose power it lies to stir our sluggish blood, to broaden our ever...
Some interesting facts about Darwin were told yesterday in one of the Philosophy courses, as showing how an observance of economic laws often lead to the discovery of natural laws as well as vice versa. When Darwin was just beginning to develop his theory of species he received a letter from Wallace, who was then in the Greek Archipelago. Wallace told him (accompanying this letter was an essay, which Wallace told him contained a new theory on which he [Wallace] wrote) that as the essay was one which contained a new theory on which his thoughts had of late been...
...mysteries of fate that great characters in history are often known to the world as the direct opposites of that which they really were. The misrepresentations of contemporaries, or the imaginations of succeeding ages, give such a distorted picture as to make impossible any just conception of the man. Sometimes a character, whose representations are thus distorted, becomes his own vindicator. Perhaps no great man in the world's history has been more completely misunderstood than Sardanapalus. But we may now judge him according to his works, a thing which before our day was impossible. By excavations in the ruins...
...only is the college degree of A B. delightfully indefinite, but it is worse than indefinite. For, while the public are taught to believe it a symbol of good work done in some of the departments of the college menu, in fact it often means nothing more than that its receiver has managed to remain four years at college without having been guilty of any violent disregard of college laws, and has shown during that time that he has tried to study some one or two subjects...
...hold a series of services in the Chapel of the Episcopal Theological School, at which four bishops of the church will officiate. In accordance with the notice published in another column, Bishop Huntington of Central New York will preach at the opening service this evening. It is not often that members of the University have a privilege like this offered them, and we have no doubt that the attendance of students at these services will be very large. We trust that they will meet with the success which the past history of the St. Paul's Society certainly justifies...