Word: restful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Park Square cars now run every ten minutes between 6.30 and 11.30 A. M., and 4 and 8 P. M., and every fifteen minutes during the rest...
Keble is the most modern of the colleges as it was founded in 1870, it chapel alone costing L30,000. Exeter, Worcester, Wadham, Corpus Christi, Trinity, University and Hereford constitute the remaining colleges, all homes of celebrated men, although smaller and of less consequence than the rest help to make the University of Oxford one of the largest in the world...
...failure in mathematics lowered his general standing, and he soon gave up any ambition to attain high rank. He studied well such text books as he liked, neglecting the rest. He had no rival in his devotion to miscellaneous literature. He delighted in Scott and Shakespeare. No student of his class when he left college had read as widely. His memory was remarkable...
...success; and this instinct the world has mainly learnt of the Greeks, inasmuch as they are humanity's most signal manifestations of it. Greek art, again, Greek beauty, have their root in the same impulse to see things as they really are, inasmuch as Greek art and Greek beauty rest on fidelity to nature,-the best nature,-and on a delicate discrimination of what this best nature is. To say we work for sweetness and light, then, is only another way of saying that we work for Hellenism...
...rest of the year, 29 Weld. Apply to the janitor...