Word: plain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...situated near Jamaica Plain, about five miles southwest of the centre of Boston. The farm connected with the school is devoted primarily to the production of hay, which is consumed upon the farm by cattle and horses taken to board...
Homer, Shakespeare and Dante are closely bound together, though their methods of expression differed widely. Homer is plain and direct in the substance of his thought, and in the expression of it. With Shakespeare it is different. His characters have lost the simplicity of the older race. He is neither plain and direct in thought, nor in expression. Each of these poets, however, showed to us the scene of life without the interference of their own personalities. They showed us nature as reflected in a mirror. Dante is both a poet and a moralist. He is not content to give...
...Hayes of Jamaica Plain was yesterday appointed temporary captain of the freshman nine...
...become interested in the study of Indology and resolved to make it his life work. His special department was Sanskrit. He was one of the most prominent members of the Oriental Society and of the American Philological Society, of both of which he was president. His genius is plain to all who see through his works the versatility of mind and capacity for labor which they reveal. Dr. Whitney's crowning achievement as a scholar was his Sanskrit grammar, though to the great body of his countrymen the Century Dictionary is his greatest monument...
...Crothers of the First Church of Cambridge preached in Appleton Chapel last night from the text, "Lead me in a plain path because of mine enemies", - Psalms, 27: 11. The choir sang "Lift Up Your Heads," by Hopkins; "Show Me Thy Ways," by Roberts; and "Turn Thy Face," by Sullivan...