Word: wording
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor de Sumichrast in a few words spoke of the necessity and value of the feeling of brotherhood both between faculty and students and among the students themselves. There was a strong desire on the part of the faculty, he said, to come into closer relations with the student body, to be friendly and helpful to them. As a pupil was of no use without a teacher, so the teacher was of no use without a pupil. The relation between them must be cordial. Among the students a great deal of good could be done by a man without...
...literature of other languages than our own. It plays the part of poet for us by putting familiar things in an unaccustomed way so deftly that we feel as if we had gained another sense and had ourselves a share in the sorcery that is practiced on us. The words of our mother tongue have been worn smooth by so often rubbing against our lips or minds, while the alien word has all the subtle emphasis and beauty of some new-minted coin of ancient Syracuse. In our critical estimates we should be on our guard against this charm...
...that they will not go. I believe that I understand and value form as much as I should, but I also believe that some of those who have insisted most strongly on its supreme worth as the shaping soul of a work of art have imprisoned the word "soul" in a single one of its many meanings and the sould itself in a single one of its many functions. For the sould is not only that which gives form, but that which gives life, the mysterious and pervasive essence always in itself beautiful, not always so in the shapes which...
HARVARD BANJO CLUB.- The Banjo Club will play Class Day evening, June 22. Members who cannot be present must leave word at 54 Matthews today...
...said: The significant word of this century is progress. The first great Englishman to inspire us with the idea of progress was Tennyson. No two generations are alike. Each century shows great change from the preceding...