Word: older
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard Freshman Debating Club of the class of '98 has been very successful. Its membership has been double that of the two older clubs, and the average attendance at its meetings has been very large. Those who have taken part have undoubtedly received much benefit from the club as was shown by the speaking at the trial debate to choose representatives for the debate with the Yale Freshman Union. The committee of judges at the final trial debate expressed themselves as highly pleased with the speaking of the freshmen...
...debates of the Harvard Union and of the Wendell Phillips Club next Friday night are intended especially for members of the Freshman Debating Club. As the Freshman Debating Club was organized as a feeder for these two older societies, many freshmen will undoubtedly take advantage of this opportunity of speaking for membership...
...alike deserve. But the greatest value of Phillips Brooks House will be that it gives for the first time to instructors and students a common meeting place where official dignity and the distant deference due to it may both be set aside; where the young man may meet the older as a friend and profit by influences which are not felt in the lecture room; and where the perfect harmony of view may be established which will raise the standards of this University as nothing else can raise them. Many other good services to Harvard Phillips Brooks House will surely...
Homer, Shakespeare and Dante are closely bound together, though their methods of expression differed widely. Homer is plain and direct in the substance of his thought, and in the expression of it. With Shakespeare it is different. His characters have lost the simplicity of the older race. He is neither plain and direct in thought, nor in expression. Each of these poets, however, showed to us the scene of life without the interference of their own personalities. They showed us nature as reflected in a mirror. Dante is both a poet and a moralist. He is not content to give...
...Usual time for building a battle-ship is 5 years. - (2) Cramp can not construct the best in less than 2 1/2 years: Higgins in Cong. Rec. Vol. 27, p. 3576. - (b) Provision for - (1) Sudden shipwreck, cf. Reina Regente. - (2) Ordinary wear and tear. - (3) Filling place of older ships made nearly useless by modern improvements...