Word: stilling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...three hundredth anniversary of the birthday of John Amos Comenius. With the advent of Francis Bacon, new life was given to the intellectual world and Comenius was among the first to be influenced by it. He determined to devote his life to educating the people and we are still working with the ideas and objects which he evolved three hundred years ago. That he is not forgotten is evident from the extensive preparations which have been made throughout Europe and America to celebrate his birthday. He has won a universal significance and his influence has been world-wide...
...athletic life of the college took a fresh start yesterday afternoon; out-door work began. It is always an important occasion when the teams can get out of doors; for indoor work, however faithfully it may be done, is still only the laying of foundations. With out door practice begins the rapid progress of a team in the fine points of their work; more life, more of a feeling of actually accomplishing, something takes hold of the men. The spirit with which the crew rowed yesterday showed the advantage of actual work on the river. After the sifting...
...attention of the reader of general literature, and which are of great value since they are the "unconscious expressions of the sentiment which prevailed in their day." The description of "Bryant's New England Home," by Henrietta S. Nalmer, too, though rather long and suggestive of padding is still interesting, and the cause assigned for the remarkably advanced and liberal ideas which have centered about Cummington is suggestive, to say the least...
...Sargent has in view a scheme to place on exhibition at the World's Fair two bronze castings. These castings are to represent masculine figures, ideally perfect in their physical proportins. The plans have not yet been perfected and as the scheme is still a visionary one nothing definite can be said about it. W. C. Noble the famous portrait statue artist, who now has a studio in Cambridge, will prepare the figures...
...wish to call the attention of the junior class to the fact that this is the last day for signing for their class dinner. By last evening the blue book showed that there was still a great many men who had not yet signed. It is important that everyone who is going, sign today as the committee has to make all its arrangements in a short space of time. Enough has been said about the desirability of attending the dinner, and there should be a long list of names added to the blue book at Leavitt's today...