Word: sawed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...purely abstract enthusiasm. The imagination always asserts its place in history, for it is inseparable from the nature of man, and the story of Colonel Goffe at Deerfield is but a modern version of the Dioscuri and of St. James of Compostella. In my walk the other day, I saw a man sitting in the sun in front of a little cottage which commanded a pretty landscape. "You have a charming view here," said I. "Yes," he answered, "I take a great deal of pleasure in it though I cannot see it. I have long ago lost my sight...
...freshmen, it is folly to predict much. The Yale '97 men only arrived on Saturday and took their first row today. As between Columbia and Harvard, the latter is rowing the better. Even "Bob" Cook told me that the Columbia freshman crew is the "worst freshman crew" he ever saw. Still, their stroke, Pierrepont is an excellent oar and their improvement may be more rapid than Harvard '97, whose crew today was rowing in very fair form. Hollister, by the way, has been put back in the boat at No. 2 in place of Sleeper...
...undertaking was first started by Robert Bacon, of the Harvard Board of Overseers, last fall, at the request of Mr. Crocker, a prominent Harvard graduate, who was moved by no spirit of animosity to football, but by quite the opposite feeling. Mr. Bacon saw Walter Camp, of Yale, and pursuaded him to act as chairman. A committee was then formed of men of high reputation and influence who prepared a set of questions as to the effect of football which were sent not only to old players of the three leading universities, but also to the players on the teams...
II.Poetry in Homely Lines.I have known people who had to go to Europe to see a sunset, who could never find out how beautiful snow was till they saw it on the Alps. The familiar miracles of nature at home were too cheap, and there could be nothing wonderful in what they had only to look out of their back-windows to see. It seems incredible to them that God should come down in all his pomp and glory upon the hills that clasp the homely landscape of their native village,- that he should work his wonders with the paltry...
...talk before the Religious Union in Holden Chapel last night on the Stoic poet, Cleanthes. Cleanthes was by profession an athlete or boxer who lived in Athens in the time of Euclid and Archimedes. He was not by profession a poet, but when he came to Athens he soon saw that there was something better to live for than boxing. So he put himself under the instruction of Zeno, a Stoic philosopher. But since he was a poor man he was obliged to work nearly all night to support himself. He was summoned before the Areopagus because...