Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...defeat of Harvard by Yale in the track games ought to drive home a lesson which Harvard must learn before an equal share in athletic victories will ever come to her. It is that if Harvard is to win, the whole of Harvard must unite in the attempt to win. Part of Harvard may do its best, but, if part of Harvard is to be pitted against the whole of Yale, how more than occasional victories can result...
Attention will be repaid in several distinct ways. First there will be a lesson in the language itself. Paradoxical as it may seem, the Latin language is more thoroughly dead than almost any other dead language. Partly from the formal, serious, and matter of fact character of the people who developed and used it (or rather used and developed it), and partly from the manner in which it has been employed for the last thousand years, Latin has become a kind of monumental language, associated with epitaphs and triennial catalogues. It has ceased to be a natural means of expressing...
HARVARD FENCING CLUB.- Professor Rondelle will give a lesson Tuesday, April 17, and thereafter as usual until the intercollegiate meeting, May 5. Every one trying for the team should be present Tuesday evening...
...poor and of the sick and to utter self-abnegation. He drew followers to himself and in the course of time, obtained permission from Rome to form an order. Since his time, the Franciscans have been among the most active in the furtherance of civilization and Christianity. The great lesson of St. Francis's life is that true reform can only begin, like leaven, from within, not by destruction, but by the steady and quiet influence of a pure, peaceful life...
...SPRAGUE, 2ND, Capt.HARVARD FENCING CLUB.- Prof. Rondelle will give a lesson Saturday, 11-1, instead of Thursday night...