Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...third Harvard speaker was W. C. Douglas, Jr. He asserted that the difference between the arguments of the opposing sides was that the affirmative assumed the perfection of human nature, while the negative ventured to declare its fallibility. In other countries the measure in question or similar measures had been tried and proved impracticable...
...people. Gradually as the connexion with Frence grew weaker and at last ceased altogether, and the realm of England began to develop itself under its single kings, the languages began to commingle and to take the direction which has ended in the present English. Even without the Conquest something similar, though not identical, would have taken place, for the Saxon was rapidly changing and would have ended, what with the processes incident to all living languages, and the introduction of Latin at the revival of learning, in something nearer to modern English than to the Anglo-Saxon of Beowulf...
...curtain in the Roman theatre was not raised at the beginning of a play, but fell into a sort of box under the stage. A similar plan has been followed in Sanders, where the curtain which has been made falls on the Roman principle. The scene painted upon it is a copy of the famous relief in the British Museum in which the god of the theatre, Dionysus, comes with his train to supper with a dramatic poet. The whole forms an admirable work...
...which will be run in the invitation handicap meeting scheduled for Saturday, May 5. Every effort will be made this year to make this meeting exciting and the limits which have been placed on the handicaps are likely to bring in a notable lot of men. Three handsome prizes, similar to those given two years ago, will be given in each event. Arrangements are being made to have the score of the Harvard-Princeton baseball game which occurs on the same afternoon at Princeton bulletinned by innings on the field...
...practices in his novels, so that it is a pleasure to see such a master handling old methods. In Beauchamp's Career and Diana of the Cross Ways we see the effects of passion, poetry and strength so commingled as to form a maize or thicket of difficulties similar to those which we encounter in Carlyle and Browning...