Word: past
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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During the past six years, Williston Seminary has furnished the captains of six Yale university base-ball teams...
Railroad tickets for all western points may be obtained of C. J. Hubbard, at 5 Grays Hall, every afternoon after half-past three o'clock...
...essay that appears in our Supplement is thereby thrust upon the notice of every one in college. Men read it who could not be induced to subscribe to a literary monthly. And the writer, instead of having a reading public of 150 or 200 (for that, judging by past experience and some present experience, would be about the circulation of a monthly in this disintegrated institution) enjoys a reading public of about 800. This, of course, reacts on the character of the essays. Better men will write, if their work is to be read by everybody; and they will take...
There seems to be a peculiar connection between our dreams and our own past experiences. One can tell a great deal about the character of a person if he knows the nature of his dreams. Dreams seem in some way to be measures of men's mental capacities. They are the sincerest things about us. They reveal the idiosyncrasies of our natures, whether we like it or no. If we will not stop during our waking hours for a season of introspection and of self-interrogation, we nevertheless must submit to having all this done for us in our sleep...
...among the strangest things in a strange universe. We begin to feel as humble as old Socrates, who said that he knew only that he knew nothing. It is from this very fact of our growing humility that I draw the conclusion that we are in advance of the past ages in our learning in regard to dreams. Joseph Glanville published in 1665 his book "Scepsis Scientifica," in which he very successfully shows that "Confest ignorance is the way to science." If, then, the vanity of dogmatising is not overrated, we are in a fair way, I think, of becoming...