Word: thought
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...games from Williams and Technology, the two teams in the league which were considered her strongest rivals, and it is thought the pennant is almost won. The Tech. men were very confident of winning, but a score of 30-0 against them changed their opinion of our football prowess. Williams was still more confident, but fared scarcely better, being beaten by a score...
...Arabs were successful imitators of the culture of other nations. The unstable state of society gave them no opportunity to show whether they were capable of originating, and the turkish invasion checked the progress of thought...
...time of Mohammed, Semitic thought, as an active motive power in literature had almost disappeared from the world. There existed, however, among the roving tribes of Arabia, a lyric poetry of great excellence. War, love and hunting furnished the theme but there was no study of nature for its own sake. Sconery was introduced only as an appendage to human action. The elegance of diction and the happy flow of language showed the work of many generations of poets. There was, however, no unity of conception, and the poems were merely a string of aneedotes without beginning...
...colleges can boast a prouder record or more eminent alumni than the old University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson, a fact which he thought worthy to be chronicled, in writing his own epitaph, beside the immortal fact of his having been the author of the Declaration of Independence. The fact that he was twice President of the United States Jefferson thought less worthy of record. Although prostrated by the war, the university has since that time received over $700,000 in legacies and gifts, exclusive of its fixed endowments. It has no President but its affairs are administered...
...intellectual life of Germany. Mr. Henry Villard will deliver the first of the series early in January. His topic will be political. Prof. Ripley of Yale will speak in February on "Goethe," and Dr. Francke in March on "Individualism." The fourth lecture will be on "Modern German Thought and its significance to English-speaking People." It will be given by Mr. I. W. Harris of Concord. Mr. T. R. Kohler who has charge of the archives of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts will speak in Boylston Hall, on "German Engraving of the Sixteenth Century." Mr. Kohler is a leading...