Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...absurd mistakes in the interpretation of Homer were very frequent. This was especially so before the Renaissance, but even modern scholars have sometimes soberly offered the most ridiculous theories to explain Homeric difficulties. However, the study of Homer at the present time is more intelligent than ever before, one reason being that our text is a very pure one, better even than the one used by Virgil. The subject matter of the poem, too, has been thoroughly illumined by the united learning of many eminent scholars; mythology, likewise, is better understood, as is also the civilization of the Homeric...
...choir sang Wareing's beautiful anthem, with a bass solo, "Come now, and let us Reason...
...well equipped as the average American bachelor of arts, and by conferring the degree of A. B. on the present juniors, Harvard would not bind herself to give the A. M. for anything less than her present requirements. If money is an object, there seems to be no valid reason why Harvard should not create a new freshman year below her present...
...city of Cambridge, for some incomprehensible reason, has forbidden any one to skate on Fresh Pond this year. At first it was thought that this action was taken for the sake of preventing persons from venturing on the ice before it was strong enough to bear. But now that the ice is four or six inches thick, this excuse for forbidding skating is no longer plausible. If the city of Cambridge is anxious to prevent accidents at the Pond, it seems to us it has adopted a very poor means for carrying out its plan. Now, there is a double...
...built, and the Chemical Laboratory to some extent remodeled. A university such as ours, however, is constantly in need of improvements, and the most important of these have been touched upon in the report just published. Nearly all college endowments are encumbered with stipulations, and it is for this reason that the improvements above mentioned have not already been made. The long-felt need of a lighted reading room would have been satisfied before this, had the money been forthcoming. If this improvement be now made, therefore, it must be made as President Eliot has suggested, by some sort...