Word: reminded
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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When undergraduates remind us of "the generally acknowledged value of mathematics in mental discipline," we are inclined to quote Macaulay: "'Discipline' of the mind! Say, rather, starvation, confinement, torture, annihilation! I feel myself becoming a personification of algebra, a living trigonometrical canon, a walking table of logarithms. All my perceptions of elegance and beauty gone, or at least going. At the end of the term my brain will be 'as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage.'" Many, I fancy, can sympathize with him when he says he got "a headache daily, without acquiring one practical truth or beautiful...
...publish this week a letter relating to the erection of fire-escapes on the College buildings. This subject has been considerably discussed since the fire in Hollis, but we must remind any one who is wearied of it that it took two years of continued articles and remonstrances before walks were laid in the Yard. It is to be hoped that as fire-escapes are more important than flagstones, the Corporation will take a shorter time to procure them. During the Hollis fire an officer of the College was heard to remark: "This is quite remarkable; we thought we were...
...cannot endure. Loring's "Two College Friends" is a more truthful picture of Harvard. But this volume of verse, in our opinion, gives a still better insight into College life, and is a better representative of Harvard feeling. We know of no work which will serve so well to remind a student of his College days when away, or which will give his friends so clear an idea of the joyous life he has led here...
...Magnun" has been translated into English by Mr. James Atkinson, who has also translated Firdansi's "Shah-Nameh," the history of the ancient kings of Persia. Or why did Mr. Emerson not speak of the "Adventures and Improvisations of Kourroglou," the bandit minstrel of North Persia, whose heroes remind one of those of "Cervantes and Ariosto"? Kourroglou's lament at the death of his steed Ayrat is one of the most beautiful and pathetic elegies in Oriental literature. Why did not Mr. Emerson expatiate on those three bright stars of the literary firmament, and why did he pass over with...
...mildly remind the Faculty of two facts: 1st, That they once passed a law which prohibits playing of musical instruments on the campus, except during certain fixed hours; 2d, That a church organ is a musical instrument...