Word: owning
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Mr. Henry James, in his brief biography of Hawthorne, has lamented the bleakness and restriction of the New England environment, and has implied that richer and more complex surroundings and a more diversified experience of the world, would have strengthened the romancer's; genius in some of its most important...
The Boylston Prizes for Elocution are awarded to seniors and juniors at a public competition on the second Thursday in May. The students speak, not their own compositions, but selections from English, Greek, or Latin authors; the proportion in English is to be at least two out of three. The...
If the present apparent listlessness of the nine, and its consequent defeat by weaker teams is discouraging, students should remember that the surest way to overcome it is by their own show of interest in baseball. The zeal of the nine will be in proportion to the interest which the...
Swifter than lightning Dante transcends the earth, and travels from planet to planet towards the highest beatitude. The first heaven is the planet of the Moon, where dwell the souls of those whose wills though set upon virtue, were unstable in character. From the Moon Beatrice lifts Dante with a...
It is unfortunate that Harvard cannot by her own efforts alone save intercollegiate football, for of the intensity of her reform spirit at present there is convincing assurance. The cooperation of other colleges will, however, be necessary; and first of all, of Yale. We do not fear for the outcome...