Word: timing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...literature, composing some parts of "Faust" and other noted works. On September 17, 1786, Goethe started for Italy where he spent two years in acquainting himself with Rome, the home of the Caesars. Returning from Italy, Goethe devoted himself to the natural sciences, and it is from this time on that the lives of these great poets, Goethe and Schiller go hand in hand. Schiller was born on November 10, 1759, ten years after his contemporary. He was a sickly child but showed great ability in speaking, often addressing his little sister from a chair. He was forced into...
...Schiller died. His life was indeed romantic, filled with many struggles against adverse circumstances, and at a time when he had gained a high position among his people he was cut off by disease. Goethe lived a silent life for twenty-seven years after and at his death left works which filled forty volumes. Of the two, Goethe was the more natural and worked on the inspiration of the moment; Schiller, a man who worked in art for art's sake. As to the relation that existed between these men, possibly the monument that is erected to their memory...
...wish to warn men against leaving their overcoats exposed in the gymnasium. A few days before Thanksgiving a heavy overcoat was stolen from the books back of the new lockers and some three weeks before that time another overcoat was taken...
...glad to hear that the demand for increased accommodations for the classes in Chemistry A, will be temporarily met by the removal of the mineralogical cabinet to the new section of the Agassiz Museum. The change has been long needed, and the new arrangement will no doubt for a time satisfy the urgency. Ultimately, however, even the present accommodations will grow too small, and then a new building will be in order. Boylston Hall is certainly fast becoming out of date and inadequate. Already some inconvenience is felt in the laboratory accommodations and this is bound to increase with every...
...investigation Professor Shaler has found that many laboring men and women exceed two hundred thousand hours of hard work in a life-time while the average time of life spent by our most laborious literary men has not exceeded thirty thousand hours or about one sixth that of the laboring man with only as much brain as may guide his movements. Inasmuch, therefore, as intellectual labor his been found more wearying than that required of the ordinary man, the conclusion has been drawn that not more than nine months of the year should be devoted to school work...