Word: wente
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...science in its application to commerce and the arts of life, it is still only the achievements of the imagination that stir the deeper enthusiasm of mankind. Watt and Stephenson are entitled to our highest respect, but Plato holds his own, and we feel that something greater and rarer went to the making of Hamlet than to the invention of the steamengine, or the turning of it into a draught horse. Men have always been willing to pay the highest prices for things that were of no practical use whatever, and though a Frenchman has said that cookery...
...eighth inning Harvard lost a chance to score an extra run through McCarthy's being coached in. Stevenson got a single, stole second and went to third on Hayes's hit. Seannell got his base on balls and the bases were full. McCarthy hit to Gregory who threw to first, where there was no one to catch the ball. Stevenson and Hayes scored and Scannell crossed the plate on a wild throw to third. McCarthy was coached in and caught at home. Had he staid on third he would have scored on the hit by Whittemore which followed...
...varsity crew was out an unusually long time yesterday. Perkins took Bullard's place at No. 4 when the crew first went out, but after a row to the Abattoir and back, gave it up and took to the launch, from which he coached the crew for the remainder of the afternoon...
...symbols. The words do not suggest parts of ideas that unite as they proceed into larger and larger groups, but are mere signs as much as O. K. and C. O. D. That a Latin sentence was really an instrument of thought and expression, saying something directly as it went along, hardly enters their heads. And even a play, in which people have real emotions, talk, make bargains and swear, gives, when merely read, very little suggestion of actual thought. Few people have the dramatic imagination sufficiently to project the words into real life. But, when a character is impersonated...
...following candidates for the Princeton track team went to the training table yesterday: G. R. Swain '94 (capt.), H. F. Sill '94, G. C. Wintringer '94, H. A. McNulty '95, J. C. Caton '95, A. C. Tyler '97, Zeigler, Sem. This list is only a preliminary one, and more men will be added from time to time as the season advances...