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...doubt necessary for appreciation: we must note the peculiar subjunctive or optative to get the peculiar shade of meaning; but we do not gain anything by regarding the peculiar form as a curiosity to be catalogued, as the entomologist catalogues a rare insect. Greek and Latin are not word-puzzles but real languages, and we should think that the teacher could better expound his subject who exemplified this belief...
...Murray first showed the significance of the word "logos," or man's words, which in early times contained practically the sum of human knowledge. In those days when a book was written it was considered the property of the author; it was to be kept from the public and especially from the professional writer. All things that were worth being recorded were termed "grammata" by the Greeks and the writer was a "grammaticos." As a book was intended solely for the author it was written in a form that was practically impossible for another man to decipher. Hence arose...
...race between the Yale and Annapolis crews, scheduled for last Saturday and postponed until yesterday, was cancelled by the Yale crew, who received word from the faculty that no other date than that first set would be satisfactory. The crew left Annapolis Sunday afternoon...
...called "Varied Outlooks" and presenting various points of view of college life. There is no reason why such expressions should not be given and received in the Advocate with candor and benefit. Mr. Van Wyck Brooks' defence of the type of mind indicated by a fair understanding of the word "aesthetic" becomes not so specialized a view as he forecasts. He is as abhorrent of "new culture" as he is severe towards the "coarse mind"; and the "poser" wherever found, whether he reads Pierre Loti to maintain refinement or abstains from drinking milk because he thinks it unmanly, is called...
Professor F. W. Putnam '62, curator of the Peabody Museum, has recently received word from Dr. W. C. Farabee '00, head of the Peabody Museum South American Ethnological Expedition, which started December 17, 1906, of their safe arrival at Arequipa, Peru, where the Harvard Observatory is situated...