Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...thought through synthesis, but over him hangs the great shadow of the unknowable; in the same breath he seems to say we know all and we know nothing. His inspiration is more concrete than Hegel's but probably vaguer than the vaguest realism. He has not profited by the lesson of philosophy. His idea is great but not satisfactory. The doctrine of evolution teaches that there is something behind the mere mechanism of change, it does not remove ideals but presupposes them...
There are several peculiarities of the Old Testament. There is a biographical characteristic.- stories of individuals, from Genesis practically to Psalnis and Job. Then there is the intentional characteristic. The books were written for the sake of the lesson that the writers...
...CLASS FOR HARVARD STUDENTS.- Roberts Hall, Tuesday evening, Dec. 2d. at 7.30. Mr. L. Papanti will open his classes for instruction in dancing this evening. Classes will be formed separately for new beginners and for advanced scholars. All new and fashionable dances taught thoroughly in one course of 16 lessons. Terms. $12 for the course. Private lessons given; terms, $3 each lesson of one hour...
...Tarbell has given out the same lesson in Latin 4 for Saturday as was assigned for last Saturday...
...eleven ever won a harder fought or better deserved victory than did Harvard at Springfield Saturday. The victory is not the result of one year's training alone; it is the consummation of the work begun here years ago. It has been a long, hard and often a discouraging lesson, this learning of the game of football. Three times of late years we have thought that we had it mastered, and each time Yale has sent us back to Cambridge to study it some more. But we have stuck to the task with a dogged perseverance...