Word: rare
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...large number of men. Professor Norton with the Misses Norton received the students. Miss Shaler, Miss Moore, the Misses Child, and a number of young ladies from Radcliffe College assisted in entertaining. The evening was made most interesting by the opportunity given to all to examine the many rare books and pictures Professor Norton has collected...
...John T. Morse, Jr., author of four volumes of the "American Statesman" series to prepare the memoir of Dr. Holmes, and Mr. Morse has consented to undertake this important literary task. The book will include a large number of Dr. Holmes's letters which have great interest and the rare personal charm which entered into his autobiographical work. The preparation of the book will in the nature of things take considerable time. But when it does appear, coming from Mr. Morse's pen, it cannot fail to be a literary event of the first importance, and an interesting contribution...
...professors suggests to us a simple point of college etiquette. At present, it is not rare for the most distinguished members of the University to go about the grounds without receiving any recognition from the students. This comes from two causes: The students have diffidence in being the first to make sign of recognition, in fear that the older man may feel inconvenienced to return the recognition; the older members of the University, on the other hand, are unable to distinguish among a great number of men such as should be known to them...
...great lesson of science is that of the unity of nature. No matter what we study, the conviction is inevitably - forced home to us that in all the complexity and multifariousness of the universe there is one ruling principle. As Aristotle, in one of those rare glimpses of truth which he seems to have had, said, in nature there is no interpolation. So we may believe that evil was no interpolation, no after-thought of nature, but one of its necessary functions. This can be proved, for no such thing as good can be conceived without a contrasting idea...
...members of the senior class will notice that every one who attends the dinner of the class must sign before nine o'clock this morning. The dinner is one of those rare occasions on which men of widely different interests come to recognize, in part, what is common to all as fellow members of a class. Fortunately, the matter of experience can debar no one from attending...