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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...mumpsimus of the ignorant priest to the sumpsimus of the Latin ritual. The sooner such persons, or any persons for that matter, become accustomed to the right way, the sooner they will find that there is no more difficulty and no less enjoyment in this than in the old barbarous jargon. For the English pronunciation is essentially that. It is not strange that the islanders should have swung away from their continental neighbors in this matter, but it is strange that they should have adhered to their perverse pronunciation in spite of all the efforts of various intelligent persons...
...incarnation. The plot embodies financial difficulties, spiritualism and love. Mr. Pickletop, the cause of all the trouble, in order to avoid his creditors is spirited away to a haunted house, where he is confined longer thean necessary by his secretary, Brattle, in order that Brattle may marry the old man's daughter, although Pickletop unknown to the others had already picked out Brattle for his son-in-law. Pickletop succeeds in escaping from the haunted house, and just as his debts are being paid by his secretary, appears before his creditors, when everything is explained. Local interest is added...
...Prospect Union is in need of larger quarters; the number of men who wish to enter classes there is greater than can in any way be accommodated. To meet this need, the most expedient move has seemed to be the purchase of the old City Hall of Cambridge. The money for this purpose is to be raised, partly by mortgage and partly by bonds issued by the Prospect Union and secured by the real estate purchased. We speak of the matter because, in the first place, we believe that the Prospect Union does an excellent work and that every plan...
...wisdom is not the having learned any particular thing, but the result of many knowledge mutually acting upon and modifying each other. Michael Angelo chose for his emblem the figure of an old man in a child's go-cart with the motto, anchor impair,- I am still learning. Titian, dying of the plague at ninety-nine, exclaimed sadly, "My God, must I die now, just as I had learned to paint an eye!" Indeed the word learning, which we use to express a result, does by its very form imply an unfinished and unfinishable process. What the judgment requires...
...print in another column a high compliment on the gentlemanly tone which prevailed at the "Harvard Night." Precisely this sort of compliment was not expected from the good old Transcript...