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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...PET dogs taken to board. Happy home. Fine yard. 8 Magee street, Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 5/11/1894 | See Source »

Hearing that I hold decided views in regard to rowing, you have kindly asked me to write a short article on the training of the crew. I approach this subject with diffidence, for I am well aware that one has pet superstitions in regard to the best way of applying strength to an oar; but when one reflects that distinguished physicians recommend certain remedies and other equally renowned doctors denounce the same remedies one is forced to confess that the only scientific way to decide upon the truth of various theories is to resort to scientific study and experiment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Trowbridge's Letter on Rowing. | 3/8/1893 | See Source »

...away from what is. Moreover, nothing can exist in only itself. Its purpose is ministry, and by ministry it preserves itself. Self preservation would be self destruction. So it is with the "independent" thinker, who refuses to follow the universal theory. Mental progress means to part with our own pet whims and obey the universal theories and principles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel. | 2/13/1893 | See Source »

...library, and also give students of the Fine Arts convenient access simultaneously to books on art and to the works of art themselves. No scheme could be more advantageous to the Fine Arts department, especially, as in the carrying out of this scheme, Gore Hall one of the pet architectural aversions of the Fine Arts department, would be removed from sight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/13/1892 | See Source »

...religion has contributed divine love, grace and purity. Mercy is the predominating quality of all Greek gods and goddesses, of Apollo, Aesculpius, Dionysus, and Demeter. The religion is polytheistic, but its polytheism is more monotheistic than monotheism, for each state in Greece was independent, and each one having its pet divinity, each divinity was all-powerful in its homes. Everything was disorganized; there was a great lack of method. Questions as to prerogatives of the divinities never arose; exact limits were not set to the powers of any god. There is never any quarrel as to which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Classical Club Lectures. | 4/30/1890 | See Source »

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