Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...before reading a course of lectures, one should wait until he felt that he had mastered the subject in all its details, a sudden dumbness would fall over the professor's chair and the desk of the lyceum. At three score one would still be studying; at three score and ten he would still be meditating on what he had read, and ere he was ready with his inaugural discourse, his own headstone would be reading a pithy lecture on the shortness of life and the length of books. So true do we find it that wisdom is that
...University during the year, a few pages are devoted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts and the changes which have taken place in recent years as to the relative position of this degree and that in science and letters. These changes are significant in connection with the sudden and rapid growth during the past few years of the Scientific School...
Linder was born in Newton, Massachusetts. He fitted for college at the Newton High School and at Mr. Cutler's private school, and entered Harvard with the class of ninety-five. While he has been in college, Linder has made many friends, to whom his death comes as a sudden and painful blow. His cheerful disposition and manly bearing attracted to him many who did not know him intimately and to these as well as to his closer friends, his death is a sad loss. In temperament he was so quiet and unassuming that it is not until...
...University will be deeply grieved to learn of the sudden death of Frank Bolles, who died of pneumonia yesterday afternoon at his home on Berkeley street...
...figures do not show a startling increase and their significance does not lie in the fact that they point to a sudden revulsion of feeling in favor of Harvard. They simply indicate the beginning of what will probably be a steady wideninging of the field from which Harvard will draw her students. To discover this just at this time is particularly gratifying for it shows that the skeptics and conservatives all over the country who have looked with grave concern on Harvard's elective system and noncompulsory attendance at chapel are beginning to see that these are steps in advance...