Word: realing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...disciples, telling them that it was because. He had opened their eyes and they no longer were blind that there could be no palliation of their sin. Our sins are many or few according to our knowledge of them, and therefore, together with our first higher sense of real righteousness, comes a feeling of sin and shame. But this rising sense of sin is a hopeful sign, for if we receive it into our hearts with pure feelings we shall be animated to rise above it, and with a better heart to accomplish the designs for which we have been...
...meeting of last evening may be said to have carried out more nearly the real idea of the College Conference meetings than any of the previous ones this year have done. In the course of his remarks, Mr. Cable frequently called upon the members of the audience for their thoughts upon the several points which he brought up, and in every case the replies were many and ready. Mr. Cable's lecture was almost entirely free from any strong expression of partisanship, and for that reason a most hearty concurrence with his remarks was shown by the audience...
...play was first represented in 431 B. C., when it gained the third prize only, being judged inferior to the works of Sophocles and of Euphorion, the son of Aeschylus. This shows the comparative popularity of the authors more than the real literary merits of the pieces...
...stage assisted the unity of the piece by directing the attention to the central figure. The plot itself was almost bodily borrowed from the piece of Neophron, but great skill is shown in leading up to the catastrophe. The poet makes us understand the conduct of Medea, although no real sympathy with her unnatural deed is possible. Medea herself was, in the minds of the Athenians, a real and terrible woman, who could no more be explained away as a moon myth than could Xantippe or Aspasia...
Lack of enthusiasm-Harvard indifference-has been dinged in our ears for years past as the cause of our athletic defeats. Some men, however, have seen more deeply, and have struck at the real cause both of Harvard's indifference and her want of success. Athletics are free from artificial and injurious restraint, and a vigorous hope of success is taking the place of a growing despair that Harvard would ever again win victory. There is no need to urge earnestness on the part of those trying for the nine or crew, for the spirit...