Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Bowdoin will seek readmission to the New England Intercollegiate Athletic Association this year. It was a member of the association for the first year and then resigned because of financial reasons...
...such out-of-the-way languages as Ethiopic, Phoenician, Pali, Gothic, Icelandic, Old Saxon, etc. There is however no course in Celtic. Is it not possible to have one at Harvard? A knowledge of old Welsh, Gaelic and Celtic is important for those who study mediaeval literature and seek to trace the origin of various myths and legends which have been woven into the romances of old French and German. Courses in the field suggested would certainly not be given in vain, and there are undoubtedly members of the Faculty competent to give them. Nothing apparently, is lacking...
...without either fellow-feeling for, or hostility against his subject. Thus the article must be utterly unsatistactory to those who are so unfortunate as to experrence De Senancour's sorrowful mysticism and inactive melancholy, while it fails to attract those who approach Obermann as students of literature, and seek to know what others have thought of him. Mr. Lovett's article appears to lack spontaneity...
...first Modern Language Conference will take place this evening, a fact to which we wish to call particular attention. It is one of the prime objects of an institution like Harvard to seek out and make known facts of all kinds which the ordinary student has neither the time nor the ability to investigate; this series of conferences has been organized with the double purpose of offering a chance for special research students in modern languages to make the results of their work public, and of bringing these students and their instructors more closely together. The Conference starts out this...
...evening, taking as his text the sixty-sixth and sixty-seventh verses of the sixth chapter of Saint John. Christ asks the disciples if they will leave him and Peter asks whither they should turn if they did. Before a man turns aside from the Christian religion let him seek out carefully what those who are tempting him away have to offer that will compensate for the precious belief he already holds. He will find that worship of man himself, disbelief of all forgiveness, of reward of virtue and punishment of vice, of soul, of future life, of Heaven...