Word: shared
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...give time can give money. The plan of work is a good one, - remarkable not only because it has never before been tried here, but also because it is sure to be taken as a copy by other large colleges throughout the country. Every Harvard man will wish to share in making it a success...
...phenomena by which we are to explain man's ideas about himself? Certainly not in language alone, as Max Muller would hold, but in rites, usages, and customs. But here lies the difficulty, that these depend upon the modes of thought, analogies and impressions which we can no longer share...
...adds much to the pleaure we feel in reading the literature of other languages than our own. It plays the part of poet for us by putting familiar things in an unaccustomed way so deftly that we feel as if we had gained another sense and had ourselves a share in the sorcery that is practiced on us. The words of our mother tongue have been worn smooth by so often rubbing against our lips or minds, while the alien word has all the subtle emphasis and beauty of some new-minted coin of ancient Syracuse. In our critical estimates...
...have the face to be standing here. But neither should I if I shrank from saying what I believed to be the truth, whether here or elsewhere. I think that the purely linguistic side in the teaching of them seems in the way to get more than its fitting share. I insist only that in our college courses this should be a separate study, and that, good as it is in itself, it should, in the scheme of general instruction, be restrained to its own function as the guide to something better. And that something better is Literature...
...three, and an enthusiastic send-off will show them that the University appreciates their good work on Wednesday and hopes to see similar work tomorrow. At the game itself, Harvard supporters will be needed and a good number ought to make the trip. The management has done its share; it remains for students in general to do theirs...