Word: vera
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Collegio Harvardiano antiquitus consociati, nuper vetera amicitiae iura auspiciis optimis renovavimus; litteris datis acceptisque trans maria lata dextras iunximus; legatis denique Insignibus missis, ludis illissaecularibus, etiam absentes, velut praesentes interfuimus. Hodie vero e Collegii illius professoribus unum re vera praesentem videmus, virum et suo et patris et Collegii sui nomine nobis dilectum. Donec Alpium inter culmina ingentes illae glaciei moles desuper paullatim descendunt, tam diupatris illius nomen superstes vivet, qui, in Republica non magna natus, Rempublicam maximam gloriae suae fecit participem, expertus scilicet vetera illa verba quam vera essent...
...thumb. On one occasion when he had been lecturing on the relations of good and evil of the world, he was asked by some inquisitive divinity student to explain the origin of evil. Replied the president, with a strong Doric accent: - "Well, ye have asked me a vera deeficult question. All the feelosophers of antiquity have tried their hand at it. Sookrates tried it and failed; Plato did no better. Descarites, Spinoza and Leibnitz were obliged to confess it was too much for them. Kant tried it and made a mess of it, and to tell you the truth, gentlemen...
There is said to be great enthusiasm at Brown University this Vera over boating. The boathouse is to be repaired and a new shell is to be bought. Even the Freshmen are thinking of putting a crew upon the water...
Several more Nihilist leaders have been arrested at St. Petersburg. It is stated that among them is the well known female Nihilist, Vera Sassulitch...
Oscar Wilde, the apostle of aestheticism, arrived yesterday in New York, on the steamer Arizona. His chief object is to see America, and to introduce his new play "Vera, the Nihilist...