Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...royal wars, limits and erection of cities, palaces and temples, are written on rock mountain sides, on stone statues, monuments, and slabs, but especially on clay books in the shape of prisms, cylinders and tablets. Besides such documents there are others of the nature of historical compilations, while still others are proclamations or letters from the king, petitions to him or reports from his generals and his governors. The total impression made by such records when taken in connection with the art remains is that of enormous power and enterprise. The politics of western Asia pass before us like...
...duties. If hour examinations must continue a feature of our college, let them come systematically, let there be some agreement between instructors, so that men will not have to neglect shamefully the work of one course in order to pass creditably an hour's test in another, or worse still, fail to do themselves justice in any of their courses. The crowding of these examinations utterly without plan into the last three days of the term, in addition to the extra work at this time, is one of the worst abuses of our examination system, and one of the greatest...
...still too early to tell what the prospects are in the individual events, for hard work will not begin until after the April recess. Of last year's Mott Haven team some of the '88 men may compete again, and all the others are in training with the exception of Bell '91, who has trouble with his heart. Lund, will in all probability run again after the recess. Wright and Cogswell are still in doubt, but may be persuaded to take part in the sports...
...college library has recently received as a gift a very useful collection of textbooks from the publishing firm of Longwood, Green and Co., of London. The collection numbers 164 volumes in all, and although a number of the books are duplicates of volumes already in the library, still the collection is very welcome...
...inherent means for the distribution of plants were divided into three classes-by stem, by root, and by fruit-and these were still further subdivided-stem into suckers, runners and rhizomes; roots into aerial growth as is the case with the banyan and rattan; and fruit into dehiscence, both active and passive, and elasticity. Dehiscence is not necessarily elastic, and an ordinary observer cannot fail to corroborate the truth of this statement by seeing the workings of nature in regard to plant growth. Inherent means for dissemination, however, must always prove limited, and it is necessary to depend largely...