Word: ond
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that it is unjust to criticise excerpts from a story without the slightest reference to the context, when by so doing he perverts the meaning and general effect of the passage in question. Now the critic takes exception to the hero's "quoting Homer in the death agony ond dying with Horace on his lips." In the abstract, if we merely consider that a man is about to perish in a volcano, this objection is perhaps a good one. Certain it is that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, no one would stop to quote Homer and Horace...
...hare and hounds run yesterday was very satisfactory. The hares, who were also the winners, were Bailey, '88, and Lothrop, '87. The number of hounds was gratifyingly large. The first four were Dana, '88, Craig, '87, Litchfield, '86, ond Blossom, '88. The time of the run was one hour and fifteen minutes...
Last evening Prof. Goodwin lectured upon "Troy and Mycenae" to a small audience in Sanders Theatre. Professors Norton ond Dyer were among the auditors. The lecturer said that a few years ago he had been asked in a letter if there were a Dr. Schleimann? if he had discovered an ancient city? and if that city were Homer's Troy? All these points he had denied at the time, but was soon obliged to recant. Within the Agora of Mycenae five tombs were opened, and the many golden ornaments found therein undoubtedly belong to the Heroic Age. The speaker thought...