Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...books, and of adding a host of old ones to the authors' lists, is indeed an arduous one, and Mr. Winsor has accomplished a task which will doubtless bring him well-deserved thanks. But still the library, perfect as it now is sorely in need of one thing which will render it of more importance than ever electric lights. These we hope to see put in shortly, and we have good ground for believing that, in this respect, our wishes will be gratified...
...authorized to purchase. One set of books is worthy of especial notice. This is a set of seventy small volumes containing selections from the French classics. They have been presented to the library by the large Parisian publishing firm of Veuve Eugene Belin et Fils-a very unusual thing for a foreign or in fact an American publishing house to do. When Professor Cohn was abroad last summer, he visited this publishing house and admired this set of French classics, as they are admirably adapted for work in the less advanced French courses. Hence the gift...
...latest thing in pens is the Combined Fountain and Stylographic Pen Call and see it, at CHARLES H. THURSTON'S, 442 Harvard St., (2 doors from Leavitt and Peirce...
...Really to live in Cambridge, without running into Boston once or twice a day, as an undergraduate may today, made a different thing of college life. I remember that Newton, in my class, told me, the day we graduated, that he had been at every chapel exercise and every college exercise since the day he entered. When I expressed my amazement, he said quietly, "Why should not I have done this? I had nothing to do in Boston as you had, with your home there. Cambridge was my home. If I lived in Cambridge, I might as well...
...unity of plot is a very different thing, and it is as important now as it ever was. Every critic must agree with Aristotle, and every art says undertake only one thing at a time. Unity of action, simplicity of design, and subordination of detail are requisites in every tragedy of lasting excellence, whose purpose it is to purify through terror and pity the minds...