Word: talents
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...long as we have no international copyright, so long must literary talent remain a good way below par. This was the opinion of the distinguished gentlemen who met together recently to devise some means of securing the passage by Congress of an international copyright...
...time gave promise of becoming. In a new enterprise deficiencies are to be excused; but the present volume of the Echo falls considerably below the standard of its predecessors. And yet it would seem as if, among the battalions of editors which our cotemporary boasts, enough talent and energy might be found to secure freedom from grammatical and typographical errors, at least. We are of the opinion that Harvard deserves as good a daily as Yale, and will support one. There is, however, room for only one daily here, and we are thus dependent upon the Echo. We hope...
...greatest light in science, and perhaps the most distinguished of its professors. Mr. Peirce had been for forty-seven years a professor in the College, -the longest time, with but one exception, that any one has held such a position. He was a born mathematician, with a special talent for astronomy as well. During the whole of his long and honorable career he was noted for his untiring energy, as well as for the brilliancy of the results at which he arrived. This year he intended to give a new course, - Cosmical Physics, - in which were to be embodied...
...play was necessarily of a local character, yet it was entirely appreciated by the whole audience, and contained no personalities at which the most sensitive nature could take offence. The hits, though scarcely any of them new, were brought out in situations that showed no little ingenuity and dramatic talent. The actors were good in their respective parts, with the exception of one or two hitches on account of a lack of sufficient rehearsals. The performance, however, was eminently successful, and there is reason for expecting something of a high order from the same author...
This was discovered, however, to be a poem which the Crimson had rejected, and the President thought that home talent had better be encouraged in future. He therefore called upon Dr. Oliver Wendell H-lm-s for one of the poems of his boyhood. The Doctor gave