Word: away
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...DEAR MR. STICKNEY:-Was very glad to get your letter. I was away on our spring baseball trip, or your letter would have received a prompt reply. As to your coming down here I will tell you plainly, I will do all I can for you in every way, if you really wish to come. I can get your board, tuition, etc., free. The athletic men at Princeton get by all odds the best treatment in any of the colleges. I would like to talk it over with you personally. If you will accept an invitation from me to come...
...very glad to announce the extra Christmas service which will be given in the chapel for those who are to remain in Cambridge during the recess. From its promised character the service cannot fail to be a pleasant occasion for those who spend their Christmas away from home...
...people. Instead of a onesided worship of Latin and Greek literature they proclaimed the universality of literature in all ages and among all nations. The great works of Schiller and Goethe, white lifting German literature to a higher plane, had tended to remove it further and further away from the understanding of the masses. The Romantic School endeavored to restore literature to the place it held in the Middle Ages when almost the whole intellectual activity of the nation centered in its poetry. The Middle Ages became the ideal of the Romanticists; mediaeval subjects were chosen by preface and mediaeval...
...utterly impossible to do satisfactory work on rowing weights that are so far gone that they cannot be made to offer the slightest resistance, and which, therefore, men cannot possibly handle as they would an oar. These winter months are too valuable to be thrown away; the crews that use them to the best advantage always show it in the class races, but it is perfectly evident that work on such machines as those which are at present in the rowing room, will not enable any team to do itself justice...
...begun in 1881 by the Greek Archaeological society. The excavations were continued until 1885, and have proved to be among the most successful ever carried on in Greece. Two temples have been discovered, and one circular structure, of unknown purpose, but great architectural merit. The debris has been cleared away from the theatre, and the stage structure thus revealed has led to a revolution in our ideas as to the manner of the production of a Greek play. Many sculptures have been found of over average merit, though none of the highest. But most important has been the harvest...