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Word: thoughtful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...some sort of training at once which will prepare them for the work of the spring. The freshmen should remember that the defeat of their class eleven last fall still lingers in the memory of the college. The class has yet to win its victories in athletics, and this thought should be an ever present incentive to the men who will work for the class nine and crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/6/1892 | See Source »

...series of four lectures, one each year, occurring in regular rotation and treating of subjects in religion. Justice Dudley was of an investigating turn of mind, more or less of a scientist and very much interested in all matters of theology. Being interested in Harvard College, he thought it would be a good thing to establish these lectures as regular institutions. In 1755, soon after his death, the first lecture was given, and they were kept up in the order prescribed in the bequest, till 1857, a period of over a century, when the fund became so low that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dudleian Lecture. | 12/17/1891 | See Source »

...establishment of these lectures, however, the college has been gradually outgrowing the narrow bounds of sectarianism, and now a subject such as the one described would never be treated voluntarily here. The entire place is thoroughly out of sympathy with the subject. The spirit which dominates the religious thought of the college is one of broad tolerance. It will be very interesting to see just how Professor Emerton handles the subject...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/17/1891 | See Source »

...Scientific School is about finished. It will be used as an electrical work-shop and is probably the first of a series of work-shops for the study of the higher sciences, as the benefit of actual work at the bench is beginning to be more and more highly thought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lawrence Scientific School Additions. | 12/14/1891 | See Source »

...Loci, who killed him. Balda had dreamed that his life was threatened, and the gods had made all things - the animals and the plants - promise not to harm him. But they had neglected a little plant which grew on the mountains, the mistletoe, which was so small that they thought it could do no harm. Loci heard of this, and possessing himself of a branch, repaired to an assemblage of the gods, when they were throwing things at Balda and sceing them avoid him. Loci gave the mistletoe to Balda's blind brother and directed him to throw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Icelandic Saga. | 12/5/1891 | See Source »

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