Word: grandest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lecturer spoke as foilows: The Mahabharata, the grandest poem in Indian literature, dates back about 2000 years. It is a mere jumble of episodes, some tedious, some ridiculous, and some as noble and musical as the best parts of Homer. The poem contains 220.000 lines, with 18,000 supplementary ones, and is held in such high honor by Indians that it is learned by heart. The Indians sit around some Brahmin, and consider it one of the greatest boons to listen to him recite episode after episode. The metre is easily mastered and therefore easily imitated; this quality...
...Overseers have taken on this question. There is no doubt but compulsory chapel and compulsory church caused a stagnation in religious matters at Harvard, that only the breaking of the fetters which bound us to the latter has disturbed. Dr. Hale declares our chapel service to be "the grandest he has ever seen." We think he is mistaken; it lacks the one thing which makes a religious service most impressive - spontaneity. But hereafter, with a sympathetic pastor in our midst to stimulate us to new ambitions, with a chapel where interest and not compulsion is the motive of attendance, where...
...such meaning proverbs as "Soapine did it" - might necessitate even the closing of the college. In view of these facts we sincerely hope that the conductors and drivers of the Cambridge tramways will take serious thought before they strike and interrupt the progress of the "oldest, largest and grandest university in America...
...great need of public instruction fitted to perpetuate the spirit of American institutions. The spectacle of children of different races, creeds and social classes attending the same school, is too familiar to need notice, and the common school system of the United States stands acknowledged as one of the grandest achievements of civilization. Yet it seems in danger of being crowded out of existence by opposition from two sources, one positive in its antagonism, the other negative...
...alarm of fire from box 78 at 10.50 last night brought more than half the men in college to Fresh Pond. Those who took the two mile run over fields, fences, ditches, and barbed wire, were well repaid for their trouble by one of the grandest sights that has been seen around Cambridge for a long time. For over an hour four large ice houses were a mass of flames. There was no ice in the buildings, but there was a quantity of sawdust which added to the brilliancy of the conflagration...