Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...which makes fashions and is not made by them. They opened their Homer, their Sophocles, their Tacitus, their Horace, where we take up our newspaper or our novel. What an old Gascon prig would Montaigne have been but for the ancients, especially Plutarch. Yet his library did not swamp him, and though his essays are pockmarked all over with quotations, his temper is essentially modern, indeed, he is the first of the properly modern writers. It is not as ladders to the languages in which they are written that I would commend these books, but the languages as ladders...
Geological Conference. Papers: Hematite Deposits near Pittsfield, Mass., Mr. J. Underhill; Inclined Topography, Mr. F. P. Gulliver; A Cane Swamp on Rumstick Neck, Narragansett Bay, Mr. J. B. Woodworth. Geological Laboratory...
Geological Conference. Papers: Hematite Deposits near Pittsfield, Mass., Mr. J. Underhill; Inclined Topography, Mr. F. P. Gulliver; A Cane Swamp on Rumstick Neck, Narragansett Bay, Mr. J. B. Woodworth. Geological Laboratory...
...field, as large as all the grounds now in use. The soil of the new field is better than that of Norton's Field, and can be made ready for use with little difficulty. As soon as that is put into shape, work will be begun upon the adjacent swamp land belonging to the college, and this will be gradually reclaimed, until at the end of twenty years, Harvard will have the finest athletic park in the country. These grounds, too, are within only seven or eight minutes walk of the yard, and close by the Weld boat house, which...