Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Brooks, almost two years ago, a movement was begun to erect a fitting memorial to him at Harvard. Dr. Brooks had been much interested during the later years of his life in the endeavor to erect a building for the religious societies of the University, and so it was thought that such a building would be a most fitting memorial...
...thought that such a building should have separate rooms for each of the religious societies, one or more rooms suitable for lectures and addresses, a suite of rooms for the preacher serving his term at the University, a library and reading room, rooms where sick students and those attending them could be accommodated; and a hall where receptions could be held and distinguished visitors of the University entertained...
...Prejudice," by Jane Austen was then taken up by Mr. Copeland. Her books, he said, had been read with delight by the greatest men both of England and America. All through her works one feels that it is of real life he is reading. But "Pride and Prejudice," he thought, was not the best of her books, of which the most delightful perhaps were her latest works: "Mansfield Park," "Emma," "Persuasion." One goes to Jane Austen for humor, and not for pathos. Her novels are no more real than Miss Wilkens's "Pembroke," which is an extraordinary work, full...
...learned at the Massachusetts General Hospital last night that Mr. Oswald G. Villard, assistant in History 13, who has been suffering from appendicitis, passed a comfortable day yesterday. He is now thought to be out of danger...
...report which has been circulated with regard to missing pictures, refers to the loss of two pictures of Nicholas and Sarah Sever that formerly hung on the stair landing in Sever Hall. The pictures were missed almost a year ago, but the matter was not thought sufficiently important to be made public. There is no reason whatever to attribute their disappearance to any of the students...