Word: showings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...standing of the University before the country at large, the courses of public lectures are especially important. Like the published contributions to science or literature that are made by our instructors and students, they show that beyond the work that is definitely laid out in the various courses, and constantly inspiring that work, there is an intellectual activity that is making Harvard more and more a centre of learning, in the broadest sense of the term...
...varsity practice last Saturday did not show much improvement. About ten coaches were on the field, but their exhortations had little effect...
...only in her literature, but also in her art, which we find revealed in the sepulchral monuments. Among all that remains to us of ancient origin, there is nothing which brings us so closely in contact with the everyday life of the Greeks as these grave monuments. They also show us the artistic spirit of the ancients, in showing us the ideals of the best masters as established in the popular mind...
...almost all monuments we find inscriptions of some kind. The public epitaphs, while of great historic value, do not give us glimpses into the life of the people. But the private inscriptions show us clearly the family life of the Greeks. Sometimes the occupation of the person is recorded in the epitaph. Where possible, the happy side of life is touched on. They glory in living to a ripe old age. Only occasionally do we find humorous inscriptions. The Greeks accepted life as they found it, without pessimism, taking everything which happened uncomplainingly...
...think might be extended to the football players, and especially to the captain, at the beginning of the year. This they think might be done without implying any leniency in the subsequent estimate of the year's work. We doubt whether it is the policy of the authorities to show even such consideration as this, on the ground that no outside interests should be allowed to tax the students to the extent of preventing regular habits of work at any and all times of the year. But granting in this case that such consideration were allowed to carry weight...