Word: secret
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...years before our Natural History Society was started by members of the classes of '37 and '38, there was founded at Williams College a secret society, Phi Beta Theta, which soon changed its title and became as the Williams Lyceum of Natural History, a society for the study of natural science. It is the oldest college scientific society in America and will be represented in the course of lectures the Harvard Society is giving by Dr. Samuel F. Clarke, professor of biology at Williams, the lecturer of to-night...
...Appleton Chapel to hear Rev. George A. Gordon. He spoke from the text, I Samuel, ix, 3; and x, 1; Saul sought an ass, said the preacher, and found a kingdom. There is many a man who seeks a kingdom and finds an ass. I want to discourse the secret of the success of the one man and the failure of the other. Saul found a kingdom because he was in the line of duty. Faithful devotion to duty in the least things is the surest path to success in the greatest. This is abundantly illustrated in our own political...
...question and those usually most competent to testify are interested by reason of friendship for the parties accused and lack of sympathy with the authorities, and usually by reason of participation in the offence themselves. The most flagrant violations of college discipline are committed in secret and where all likely witnesses are sharers in the offence, not interested as abroad in bringing culprits to justice, but in shielding them from justice. Whether this is right is not the question here; we are dealing simply with fact...
...interesting but is hardly equal to the preceding issue. Professor Bocher offers a transcription of some of Sainte-Beuve's marginal references. This is a new method of studying a great man, but it is none the less satisfactory. Many of us who have been puzzled as to the secret of the power of the great critic, to say, apparently at a moment's notice, things at once cutting, brilliant, and profound have now our questionings answered. M. Sainte-Beuve in continually thinking with pen in hand is able when writing to think...
There are over twenty societies in the University of Kansas. One bears the euphonious name of the Lime Kiln Anti-secret Debating Society...