Word: characterizing
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Until recently the only account of the original Phoenician alphabet -- from which it is agreed the Western alphabets descend through their undoubted ancestor, the Greek,--said that it was derived from an Egyptian Hieratic system of writing. In this theory there is a break of more than a thousand years...
The first public performance of the French plays, "Crispin Medecin," and "Un Jeune Homme Presse," was given in Bratt'e Hall last night. In spite of the fact that three changes in the castes of the plays were made necessary at short notice, the performance as a whole was very...
"Simon Peter:" -- About these two words are twined the suggestive memories of a wonderful life, a life full of stress and storm and change but firm and victorious in the end. There comes before one the picture of Simon, the Galilean fisherman, fickle and untrue, known among the sailors of...
It is a significant fact that Peter called himself in his letter by both names. He realized the weakness of character that the old name "Simon" connoted, and yet he was not ashamed to use it. There was no sting in the old memories, no rankling of the old faults...
The Life of Franklin, by Paul E. More, A. M. '93, covers ground more threshed out, and tells a more practical and less romantic story. It is ably and comprehensively written, and is also marked by generosity of treatment. The public side of Franklin is made prominent, but the author...