Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Time and quiet, however, are needed to complete this work which will require several generations for its accomplishment. It is unlikely that this time will be obtained, for the Turks seem to have no mission in the world, and the powers of Europe think that a Christian government would stimulate the advance of civilization...
...purpose to join the party in Syria, and then proceed to the old Babylonian ruins. The leader of the party is enterprising, and is accompanied by two other Assyrian scholars, as well as by a photographer, etc. Nothing but well-known obstacles presented by the Turkish of ficials seem to stand in the way of success. Babylonia is covered with large artificial mounds marking the ruins of palaces, temples and cities, still burying libraries and sculptures of priceless value. Few of these have yet been touched by the spade of the European...
...victim of a dream is quite as unexpected to the reader as to Jack Hunter himself; and this very circumstance adds not a little to the effectiveness of the story. Were any comparison to be drawn between the stories in the present number of the Advocate it would seem to be but just to pronounce that of Mr. Mayandier the best...
...Semetic races seem incapable of epic or dramatic poetry. Their creations are subjective, and the poets cannot sing on subjects unconnected with themselves. It is in story telling, like that of the "Thousand and OneNights" that the epic impulses of the Semites find their scope. These tales are constantly undergoing invention and amplification at the present day. The stories themselves probably came from India through Persian translations, but they have been adapted to Arabian surroundings by numberless delicate and graceful touches...
...statements made in it. It would be difficult to correct these sufficiently without giving another long detailed account of the game; which the editors think hardly worth while, as the subject is now four days old. But to correct the entirely wrong impression the accounts of the Boston papers seem to have given those who did not see the game, it may be well to state that although the Harvard team was outplayed, it gave Princeton a terribly hard struggle; and that under conditions as favorable for Harvard as those Saturday were for Princeton, the score made on that...