Word: likely
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...control of affairs at Harvard for forty years has given up his active work. So much has been said of President Eliot in the last few months that we are appalled at the task of trying to express our opinion of him in anything like original words. Public officials here and in foreign countries, newspapers all over the world, and private citizens without number have united to do him honor. His incalculable influence in the development of Harvard University in particular and of American education in general is the most noteworthy feature of a career filled with great achievements...
This year's canvass should be even more successful than the former one, for we shall be able to have a comparison of the two estimates and see what changes have been made. An opportunity like this should not be allowed to go by unnoticed, and we are glad that the returns so far give promise of even better results than before...
...unfortunate that two University teams are playing at the same time on Soldiers Field this afternoon, for we should like to see the usual supporters of the baseball team at the lacrosse match with Columbia. Of recent years it has become the custom to speak rather disparagingly of lacrosse at Harvard, and to designate the members of the squad by an amusing but not particularly delicate title. It is hard to understand why this feeling exists at Cambridge, but it undoubtedly does exist, and it can only be done away with by the good record and the personnel...
...nature is Mr. Follett's "Star-Wondering" in which he sets the stars to pondering the old question which the first thinking man proposed to himself, the question which played so large a part in the schemes of the early Greek physical philosophers--"What is this world about us?" Like Odysseus, Mr. Blythe communes with his soul and dreams brave dreams. Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez writes in honor of the memory of Walter Pater in words which suggest Pater's style, though the title to the verse is not quite happy. Mr. Ward Shepard writes seriously on "The Spirit of Traherne...
PATHOLOGICAL COLLOQUIUM. "Silver Staining Spirocheta-like Bodies in Chronic Broncho-Pneumonia of Rats." Dr. E. E. Tyzzer. "On the Use of Fresh Rabbit Serum in Hemorrhagic Conditions." Dr. W. P. Lucas. Library of Pathological Department, Building D, Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston, 4 P.M. Open to members of the University and to physicians...