Word: things
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...ludicrous." In Hawthorne, "the scarecrow Feathertop is ridiculous, as the emblem of a superficial fop;" in Mr. MacKaye's play, "the scarecrow Ravensbane is pitiful, as the emblem of human bathos." The play has a profound significance. It shows man growing through sympathy and affection from a thing of straw into a spiritual being...
...land acts, the condition and the attitude of the peasant were greatly changed. He was no longer servile but stood up for his rights. In a few years there will be half a million land owners in Ireland who will represent 250 millions of population. The last thing that Ireland has to win is self-government based upon American principles, and for this, the struggle is now going...
...loss is irreparable to the CRIMSON and to those who knew him. No man ever went through Harvard with warmer friends or fewer enemies. He never did an ungenerous thing or spoke an unkind word. His life can ill be spared...
...great stress upon native ability and scholarly aptitude, and comparatively little upon the particular branches of learning a student has pursued in college. Any young man who has brains, and has learned to use them, can master the law, whatever his intellectual interests may have been; and the same thing is true of the curriculum in the Divinity School. Many professors of medicine, on the other hand, feel strongly that a student should enter their school with at least a rudimentary knowledge of those sciences, like chemistry, biology and physiology, which are interwoven with medical studies; and they appear...
...Harvard Club, presided and acted as toastmaster. President Lowell, in the words of a prominent graduate, "in a strong, clean-cut, direct speech showed himself to be a man who at once impresses one with the idea that he can be trusted to do for the University the right thing at the right time." He said, "College training must mean something more than the bare intellectual sense. The college man is not to be made from books alone, athletics and the social side of college life are equally as important. The main business of the college, however is in fixing...