Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...surprising, indeed, that it has been so seldom studied from this point of view, and the attempt at Harvard to do something of the sort is worth the highest degree of commendation. To a less extent the study of the extra Shaksperean drama and of the literary period immediately preceding the Restoration has also been strangely neglected and should also now be distinctly approved...
...seems to be generally understood that the period for the weekly vesper service is drawing to a close, if one can judge by the size of the congregation which assembled yesterday to hear the Reverend Dr. McKenzie. The service opened with the singing of Dyke's "Tune Alford" by the choir. Rev. F. G. Peabody then offered prayer, after which Mr. C. F. Webber of Boston sang "Be thou faithful unto death," a solo from Mendelssohn's "St. Paul." Dr. McKenzie delivered the address. He spoke about the wise sayings of Jesus when a youth and how Jesus...
...period of the year is at hand when every college is holding its winter meetings; those of Harvard are near at hand, and naturally we expect them to be as successful this year as they have proved in the past. There is one suggestion, however, which we beg to offer the management. If the experience of former years is any criterion on which to base our opinions, there will be the usual crush at the entrance. The management ought not to forget this, but should open the doors earlier than is customary and let him be served best who comes...
...Greeks were the one race which developed athletic games, and this fact distinguishes them from other races. During the period of transition in art the games were chiefly developed. Before, they had been part of the religious rites of certain ceremonial, but from 530 B.C., they assumed a distinct national character. The Olympic games were a plan of unity for the whole race; Greece laid aside all internal feuds to join in participation of them. In the 52nd Dynasty the statue of a victor was first fashioned in wood. This was very rough, but when the ice was once broken...
...spare time. Then came the Christmas duties and the mid-year's grind. Now, once more we have a breathing spell before the plunge into work for the finals, and, in the case of some, into the rush of Class Day and Commencement Day. And now in this period of rest and quiet we wish to say a word of fraternal exhortation, - "Support" everything! (1) Send your subscriptions at once to the managers of the various athletic teams, and not compel them to call upon you many times in vain - in this way supporting also the cause of morality...