Word: said
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Alexander had lived twenty or thirty years longer, said President Andrews, history probably would have been radically different in three respects. Greece would have been firmly united into one Hellenic nation, the danger of Persian domination would have been changed to the assured lordship of Greece over Asia, and Rome would not have conquered Greece, but Greece ruled Rome...
...letters, but an important branch of Anthropology, giving insight into the mental operations and intellectual and moral growth of ancient peoples. To him literature and monuments were records of life, and were to be interpreted by that and in turn themselves to interpret it. He said once, laughingly, that we called the Romans ancient, but when they were alive they thought themselves as modern as anybody there was. If he was discussing the etymology of words, he had no fine spun theories, but considered always how the minds of the people amid their surroundings worked in their habitual thought...
Criticisms of the principals in the play would be now a little premature. It may be said, however, that the two chief parts, those of Athalie and Joad are very ably taken by Miss Cushing and Professor de Sumichrast. Most of the supernumeraries are still rather awkward and stiff, but improvement is made with every rehearsal...
...mythical, long survived in Germany, testifying to the high estimation in which Lane's scholarship and good fellowship were held, and to the strict conscientiousness with which he devoted himself, in season and out of season, to the study of his chosen profession. One of his German friends once said that it was not true that he could speak German like a native (as was sometimes reported), but that it was true that he could imitate a local German dialect so that a man from another part of the country would think it was his native tongue...
...said that the Harvard men went into the game determined to do their best, that they played as well as they were capable of goes without questioning, but after the first three minutes every spectator almost felt that Harvard was outclassed. Had the men played with the dash they showed in parts of the Brown, the Cornell and the Wesleyan games, they might have won; but they were incapable of it. Harvard, try hard as she would, was not able to get out of that slow gait, while the Pennsylvania men were quick, snappy and ever active...