Word: real
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...most remote period at which we have the slightest historical knowledge of Greece, the oracle at Delphi has been an object of peculiar importance. To the ancient Greeks it was a real source of communication between this and another world. They were sincere in the divinity of the oracle, and they had perfect faith that the communications which they received through the lips of the priestess came from a god whose powers of prophecy were unlimited. The communications received through the lips of the Pythia undoubtedly contained much of truth and falsity mixed together; but they were, nevertheless...
Despite these real difficulties, however, there yet remains abundant cause for self-congratulation. The policy of the faculty in regard to athletics, as mentioned in the report, has become wiser and more lenient, and has thus added another incentive to the spirit of co-operation which already binds to a considerable degree faculty and student. It is this sort of policy, and this only, which will allow our University to exert its fullest influence...
...petition for electric lights for the library, and a quotation from Mr. Joseph Lee's letter to the Boston Herald, which has aroused so much comment recently. The last editorial is a little unfair in its anxiety to be candid. It says, speaking of the social standing of real students: "Little distinction is made between a man who studies hard and at the same time develops other sides of his life, and the man who does nothing but study. The same semiopprobrium attaches to each. Because a man does any work he apt to become 'non-fashionable' and there...
...custom peculiar to Harvard that until the middle of the third year, a class does not come together as a class, outside of the prescribed recitations of the freshman year. The first real assemblage of every class takes place at the junior class dinner, which has thus become one of the most important events of the whole college course. In the past these dinners have always been productive of much good feeling. Giving, as they do, the first opportunity for the exchange of ideas and the celebration of the class glories, they have always been marked by great enthusiasm...
...president and fellows of Harvard College have petitioned for leave to sell or otherwise dispose of real estate held by it when not otherwise stipulated by the devisee...