Word: reals
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...next set of maps accepts a boundary starting at Cape Nassau. These were probably constructed on the theory that, although the Essequibo was the real boundary, geographers must represent facts as they exist. There are seventeen maps of this kind, many of them by men of established reputation...
...Miser," as it is called, is the blind greed and selfishness of the old man, Harpagon. The opportunity for the comic element is evident and it is made the most of. In the relations, however, between Harpagon and Cleante and Mariane, his son and daughter the comedy merges into real tragedy. From an eccentricity, Harpagon's closeness becomes a vice which strains his family ties, and threatens to ruin the lives of his children. Neglected by their father they in turn forget their duty toward him. Finally, in spite of this fatal evil which is the heart of the story...
...Four years residence is not an excessive period.- (a) Purpose for a college course not merely the pursuit of knowledge.- (1) Physical advantages.- (2) Social advantages.- (3) Liberalizing and educating influence of residence at Harvard.- (b) The fourth year very often the one in which a man discovers his real aptitude: S. M. Macvane in Harv...
...Gordon showed the similarity between Paul's retirement to Arabia, before entering upon his new life of activity, and the seclusion of the college man before entering into the real struggle of life...
...speaking of Poushkin as compared with his predecessors, the lecturer showed that in the eighteenth century poets had spoken of outside life; in the beginning of the present century they spoke of feelings and the inner life, yet with sterile aspirations into a world of dreams; Poushkin takes real life inasmuch as it is reflected in human feelings and, turning human feelings from their deviation into a world of fiction, restores them to real life...