Word: often
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...well rendered and enthusiastically received. The dance of the Egyptians during the second entr'acte was very pretty and well executed. The costumes were all appropriate. The ceremony of conferring the Doctor's degree was rather tedious, the apothecaries, surgeons, going off and coming on the stage too often...
...intellectual life of its members and of the vicinity. Dr. Fiske is too well known to Harvard men to need any introduction. But we wish to impress it upon all members of the University that such an opportunity as is offered in this course does not come often and that there will undoubtedly be the usual quota of enthusiastic citizens at the doors against whom the assertion of at least equal rights to seats in the theatre may have to be maintained if the lectures are to be of the greatest advantage to those for whom they are primarily intended...
...which are connoted with great nicety. The story has a peculiar charm in that the interest in it lingers after the last word has been read. Understanding as we do that "Tangent" was written some years ago, we can not help bewailing that the author has not been more often heard from...
This higher view of religion, that one should push on, past the mere signs, to the power which lies behind them, is too often forgotten. Much as men will labor for mental civilization, they wish to gain easily, at a single step, a perfect faith and thorough understanding of the truth. They forget that no valuable result can be won without a struggle, and become discouraged at the very first difficulty...
...second illustration of the lecture was drawn from the "Merchant of Venice," in the self-sacrificing affection of Antonio and Bassanio for one another,- an affection, the speaker said, which is often lost sight of between the grandeur of the Shylock theme and the romantic charm of the history of Portia and the caskets...