Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...having caught one glimmer of that light which, for those who see it, shines as brightly now as it did when the most ignorant man in Athens felt the roll of the thunder in AEschylus' words, and was the wiser and the better for it. Such an unfortunate result cannot always be prevented by the best instructor, but in most instances it can be, and in most instances with us it is not. This is a broad assertion, but they know its truth who have observed the woful ignorance which prevails in a Greek class as to the connection...
...second part of the statement - that the present hour for dinner is not conducive to convenience - is so much a matter of personal opinion that it cannot be argued...
...kept in mind that not the interests of the boating and bail-clubs alone are to be consulted, and that the recreation, for perhaps it is nothing more, of the still greater number, can come at almost any time. It can hardly be denied that few, if any, cannot, under the present system, obtain at least an hour for whatever they may choose to employ...
...members up to last July includes 413 names, yet after but 35 of these stand the letters U. S. A. It can hardly be supposed that this number represents all those in this country who care enough for the study of Shakspere to enter the society, and we cannot but hope that Harvard undergraduates, at least, may in future be more fully represented on the list...
...obituary notices in another column suggest these few remarks. The departure of those so lately associated with us cannot fail to add a new seriousness to the thoughts and life of every thinking...