Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...made up of representatives from the leading New England colleges, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Williams, Dartmouth, Brown and Bowdoin?" And in the issue of June 10 says, in reply to the query of the HARVARD HERALD, "Doubtless our own ideal would be somewhat of an Atlantic Monthly for students." In respect to the character and objects of such a publication, I think that it should be published monthly and should aim at representing what is best and most characteristic in college life. It should resemble in some degree both the Atlantic Monthly and Harper's Weekly. It should have...
...frivolous to be entitled to the attention of the court. This view the counsel on the other side contested, urging that the object of the suit was an article of special and particular value, and that the suitors, both in age and intelligence, were entitled to the respect of the court. Decision was reserved...
...that has ever been presented in this country. The play chosen is "The Adelphi" of Terence, his last and doubtless best comedy. The latest Chronicle says of the approaching revival : "In preparing this play for representation no pains have been spared to make it complete and correct in every respect. The costumes have been carefully studied from the best classical authorities and from engravings and statues. They are not exactly such as would have been worn by the Roman actors, but rather those in vogue in Athens at the time the action is supposed to have taken place - that...
...neither eating nor sleeping. At night when he reached a place where he could supply his needs he was unable, to his great astonishment, to recollect a single word of the German language, although he ordinarily spoke it with fluency. His memory did not fail him in any other respect, he knew his own language as well as ever, and recalled perfectly all the incidents of the day. As soon as he had thoroughly rested and had eaten the food which he procured by signs, his German returned to him completely...
...hearing of the death of Mr. Darwin the students of Kieff University drew up and sent off for transmission to his son the following telegram : "The students of Kieff University deplore with you the loss of the grand master and buissant soldier of science. The Russian youth bows with respect before the profound genuis who has revealed to man the mysteries of the struggle for existence, has assigned to him his place in nature, has indicated to thought the way of indefinite development, and who, by his own example, has shown how truth ought to be served. The memory...