Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the Andover men in the University is announced for this evening. The yearly delegation from Andover to Harvard has increased steadily during the past few years, and while it perhaps cannot be called so much a Harvard as a Yale fitting school, still, there is a growing tendency in favor of Harvard. It is to keep up this tendency, and, if possible, to increase it, that the meeting is called tonight...
...Hart is still to ill to meet his courses. There will be no recitation Saturday for History 13 and 17 but students will read the topical readings covering the omitted lectures...
...since many of the reforms for which he strove, have now been established. But although his works are not now of the same value as they were, their effect on German life will never cease. Although Herder's effect on German literature will be less lasting than Lessing's, still the nation is his debtor. Prof. Francke regretted that he was unable to more than briefly allude to Schiller and Goethe. In concluding the lecturer spoke of the wide gulf which separates the Germany of Goethe's time, when freedom was the watchword, from the present Germany, where that watch...
...will suffer a serious loss in the resignation of its president, Dr. E. G. Robinson, who will withdraw from the presidency of the University at the end of the present college year. Dr. Robinson is now 74 old and during his whole life has been very active. He is still remarkably powerful, physically and mentally, but feels that the fullest development of the college requires the services of a younger...
...sixty feet in length, twenty-four inches in width, and eight and three-quarter inches deep. Nothing definite is known yet about the rig. One new feature will be tried, however: the tiller lines will be so arranged that the coxswain can grasp the gunwales of the shell and still control the rudder. This will enable him to sit more steadily in the boat, and it is thought will prove a very useful arrangement...