Word: marcus
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...growth, a region which has received but little attention from botanists. Many speciamens from California, have been sent by Professor W. L. Jepson of the University of California and Mr. J. W. Congdon of Mariposa, California. An extremely interesting collection, including many critical specimens, has been contributed by Professor Marcus S. Jones of Salt Lake City. The entire collection now contains over 27,-000 specimens, the result of over sixty years of continuous growth...
...Yale Debating Union: C. W. Smally, Yale '53, of Philadelphia; Charles Hopkins Clark, Yale '71, of Hartford; David A. Wells, of Norwich; and Edward J. Phelps, of the Yale Law School, ex-minister to England. Besides these speakers, the committee of the Yale Union are corresponding with Marcus A. Hanna, Bourke Cochran, Charles A. Dana, and Captain O. J. Mokan, relative to lecturing...
...Copeland expressly disclaimed any attempt to expound either Emerson or Carlyle with authority. He acknowledged a debt to several books and to the illuminating conversation of Professor J. B. Thayer, who, upon Arnold's comparison of Marcus Aurelius and Emerson as moralists, made the important comment that, although Marcus Aurelius gives the world morality, Emerson gives it morality kindled...
Passing on to the Stoics, the professor spoke of the doctrines of Caesar, who held the view that there was no eternal life, and of Cato and Cicero, both of whom agreed with the views of Caesar. Marcus Aurelius was a more cautious stoic, never directly offering any view upon immortality. The influence which these men held upon Roman thought was very great. The conflicting tendencies of the religion of the second century were mentioned. The hopeless cynicism of Pliny was contrasted with the faith of Vergil, who had a deep consciousness of the ethical demand for retribution...
...Alfred Hemenway Yale, J. E. Sanford Amherst; treasurer, Robert G. Shaw Harvard '69; secretary, William V. Kellen, Brown. Executive committee for four years - John T. Wheelwright Harvard '76, D. McLellan Brown, E. Parker Amherst, Charles F. Sprague Harvard '79, Reginald Foster Yale. For three years - Winslow Warren Harvard '58, Marcus Morton Yale, Richard D. Sears Harvard '83, T. W. Proctor Dartmouth, Arthur Lord Harvard '72. For two years - Nathan Matthews Jr., Harvard '75, L. L. Scaife Yale, Augustus Hemenway Harvard '75, W. Warren Williams, Frank A. Harris Harvard '66, C. S. Hamlin Harvard '83, Benj. Tenney Dartmouth, Robert M. Morse...