Word: said
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lecture before the Cercle Francaise on "Le Caractere national de la Poesie lyrique francaise" last night Professor Harper said in substance: Of all the lyrical poets who appeared before the Classical period in French literature only three, Villon, Ronsard and Du Bellais, may properly be considered great. La Fontaine stands preeminent among the poets of the Classical period. In the eighteenth century there are no French poets of exceptional ability. In the nineteenth century, however, we find three, Andre Chenier, Alfred De Musset and Victor Hugo, the greatest of all French lyrical poets. Professor Harper thinks that, with the exception...
...property. By the Supreme Court decision in the Williams College litigation it was found to be possible to assess professors' houses belonging to Massachusetts colleges, and this was accordingly done at Williams, Tufts and Harvard. Recently the Foxcroft Club was taxed for the first time, and now it is said that the University dormitories and Memorial Hall are to be assessed. If this question should be raised, it can be settled only by a long and expensive legal contest...
Without prejudice to other pressing needs of the University it may safely be said that no donation could be more welcome than that applied under the conditions stipulated, to the Ricardo Fellowship. The peculiar feature of this scholarship is, as indicated in the announcement which appears in the CRIMSON today, that it is to be awarded without reference to the pecuniary need, and solely upon the scholarly merits of the candidates. Taking into consideration not only the papers submitted in competition, but also the general capacity shown by each man in his previous academic work. As is well known, practically...
From what we have said about our low prices, it must not be inferred that we do not carry expensive grades. We carry all good grades and for all we ask prices that ought to command the approval of careful buyers...
...false impression was given by the Boston Herald in an account published of Dr. Faunce's sermon in New York on Sunday, Nov. 27. Dr. Faunce said in substance, that although he had heard there was a chilling atmosphere toward Christianity at Harvard, what he had found was the very reverse. The Herald article, although distinctly contradicting itself, stated that Dr. Faunce had said that there was at Harvard a chilling atmosphere toward religion...