Word: often
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...brilliant and witty speeches of Gen. Swift will appreciate the opportunity given them to-night. Col. Higginson is well known to us all. Of Gen. Swift, we would like to say that a more amusing speaker, a better story teller, has rarely appeared before American audiences. He is often compared with John B. Gough in the vividness of his illustration and in his ready wit. Now there is no doubt that a very large audience will be present. Why was not Sanders Theatre secured for this evening instead of Sever 11? We feel sure that Sever 11 will be crowded...
...Egyptian, particularity in the shape of the heads, thus leading us to infer that the art is not Semitic. The basreliefs, particularly the bronze cylinders representing battle scenes and religious worship are numerous, and of great interest. The Assyrian archaeology must be distinguished from the Babylonian, though they are often confused. The Assyrian proper is of much later date, and deals with more secular subjects. A long series of bas reliefs representing a battle of the Assyrians against the Elamites is especially noteworthy. The attention paid to details by the Assyrians is their characteristic in works...
...Harvard as well as at all other institutions of learning, there is a certain class of men who are known rather for their lack of brains than for any positive quality that they possess. The antics of these men are many and varied. Their nature is often displayed in their boisterous actions in the street, in recitation rooms and elsewhere, but at this period of the year, they seem to believe it their special province to do whatever they can to disturb the quiet and calm of the study-room, either forgetful that the examinations are approaching, or fiendishly taking...
...grounds of their impossibility. By limitation of choice some appear to mean making choice less. I mean fortifying it, keeping it true to itself, making it more. Control that diminishes the quantity of choice is one thing; control that raises the quality, quite another. Old educational systems are often said to have erred by excess of authority. I could not say so. The elective system, if it is to possess the future, must become as authoritative as they. More accurately we say that their authority was of a wrong sort. There are two kinds of authority, - the authority of moral...
...this fashion: - "Let me give you an example of metornymy, he is certain to get on the crew. Care should be taken in the use of personification, and - in stringing your banjo. I think you will easily see that the writers purpose has been defeated - in three rounds. Personification often lends picturesqueness and - she's a daisy." Is scacely need to point out which are the instructor's words and which those of our talkative friends...