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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Life is like one great gymnasium where our various faculties are to be developed. However, more than athletes, we have enemies to confront, pain to bear, and burdens to lift. The soul is the one object which we own, and the rest is only secondary. The world exists that the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ethics and Culture. | 1/10/1888 | See Source »

The great majority of mankind is ruled by the external consideration of their actions and is not impelled by internal life. Some are controlled by public opinion so that they stoop to do vile things because others do. They are simply like atoms in a mass, drops that follow the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ethics and Culture. | 1/10/1888 | See Source »

The first article, "Integers and Fractions" is an excellent little essay in which the writer takes the ground that mankind is divided into two classes-the integers, those who look upon life in a manly earnest way, following out their allotted path with simple faith in their own power to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The "Monthly." | 1/10/1888 | See Source »

Mayor Russell, of Cambridge, has received a letter from Mr. Frederick H. Rindge, who has offered to build a new city hall providing the city will select and buy its own lot, in which he expresses his preference for the site proposed for the new building opposite the present city...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/3/1888 | See Source »

Among the points worthy of attention in this curriculum are: (1) The course of study was for three years and was arranged for the so-called first, second and third classes. The first classics was of third year men. Second, the attention of each class was concentrated for an entire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Curriculum of Study at Harvard in Early Years. | 1/3/1888 | See Source »

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