Word: talked
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...London. Every one of the last crew, even the substitutes, are back in the University this year, and so far as able each is willing to row. This of course to the public at large seems conclusive for the success of the year. But often a serious talk with those who are in positions to know the real condition of things, one cannot help feeling quite different. In fact the impression is almost diametrically opposite from the former. In some respects the outlook is quite discouraging. Several of the best men will not be able...
...teachers. Some Harvard men go to them, and it is wished that more might attend. Last week Prof. John Fiske lectured on "The Discovery of America." Tomorrow the Rev. Mr. Brazier of Boston speaks on Henry George's "Single Tax Theory." On the 19th, Dr. A. P. Peabody will talk of the "Uses and Responsibilities of Wealth," and on the 26th Mr. Henry R. Legate will lecture on "The Municipalization of Natural Monopoly" Prof. Shaler and Mr. Edward Atkinson will also speak in the near future. A course of nine lectures on the English literature of the nineteenth century, from...
...college conference last evening was very well attended, considering the circumstance under which it took place. Those who were present listened with a great deal of pleasure to Dr. Herford's delightful talk on the difference between life in England and America. Dr. Herford especially asked that no detailed report of his lecture be made...
...translation into Greek of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Part I., last nine paragraphs, beginning, "The talk that they...
...informal talk before the Y. M. C. A. last evening, Rev. Brooke Herford discussed "The Place that Ordered Tradition Occupied in the Bible." One is apt to make the mistake, he said, that tradition in the ancient world was like tradition in our days. Oral tradition in its carrying power, is in the present day very untrustworthy, but with ancient tradition it was different, while with us the faculty of memorizing is considered as merely an amusement, with them, oral tradition was law book, title-deed of property and method of religious instruction. Memorizing was a fine...