Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last evening a spiritualistic seance was held in Lyceum Hall, which was highly successful except that the pastor of a certain Cambridge parish shrewdly guessed the way the feats were performed and gave the whole thing away in a manner exceedingly painful for the somewhat corpulent medium...
...trying for the crew!" Finally the crew was selected. Challenges came from Columbia and Yale, and were accepted. The crew got on the water. Then came the class races. After the excitement of these had subsided, the prospect of the race with Yale and Columbia was the one thing that occupied the thoughts of '89. The crew went to New London. Their reception and experiences there are told in a very amusing manner. Then came the great and glorious race for which the crew had slaved and denied themselves for nearly nine long months! There are three very good illustrations...
...make impossible any just conception of the man. Sometimes a character, whose representations are thus distorted, becomes his own vindicator. Perhaps no great man in the world's history has been more completely misunderstood than Sardanapalus. But we may now judge him according to his works, a thing which before our day was impossible. By excavations in the ruins of mineveh, the library of Sardanapalus has been recovered, and by the brilliant studies of English and German scholars, the contents of that library have now become the possession of the world. Judged by his works, Sardanapalus is neither a weakling...
...long ago it was suggested in our columns that it would be a wise and beneficial thing to organize a dramatic club here at Harvard, in view of the success which has attended such organizations at Princeton, Yale and Columbia. Although no step has been as yet taken in this direction, we are convinced that the students only want to have the matter urged upon them, so we venture to repeat our exhortation of several weeks since. The good that such an association would do is obvious. In the first place it would lead to a better, more thorough knowledge...
...curious thing that proud as is our boast of the advance of America beyond the old world in the solution of the public questions of the times and in practical affairs, we yet feel little humiliation that in the artistic and, to a certain extent, in the scholarly world we are still far inferior to our European brothers. Every day we watch with complacency the departure of friends "to study abroad." With unconcern we see the annual exodus of a quota of our graduating classes to Berlin, Paris, and other foreign centres of learning; and yet we know that this...