Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...half mile '96 was spurting and soon put two boat lengths between herself and '94. This lead was kept to the finish. There was some space between '94 and '95, who kept up the spurt to the finish...
...memory and imagination, and with such shining inhabitants! These walls, these faces, what are they in comparison with the countless images, the innumerable population which every one of us can summon up to the tiny show-box of the brain, in material breadth scarce a span, yet infinite as space and time? and in what, I pray, are those we gravely call historical characters, of which each new historian strains his neck to get a new and different view, in any sense more real than the personages of fiction? Do not serious and earnest men discuss Hamlet as they would...
...company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moments? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us; it revives for us without a miracle the Age of Wonder, endowing us with the shoes of swiftness and the cap of darkness, so that we walk invisible like fern-seed, and witness unharmed the plague at Athens or Florence or London; accompany Caesar on his marches, or look...
...professor, that there should be brought into the daily thought and life of the students here some sentiments and conceptions which should stimulate appreciation of aestehetic ideals. The better to accomplish this purpose, it has been decided to issue larger supplements than were at first intended. By this enlargement, space will be afforded, not only for the lectures, but also for other matters pertaining to the same subjects. We are deeply indebted to Mrs. Burnett, the daughter of Lowell, for permission to re-publish from her father's essays, certain portions which have been selected by Professor Norton...
Will you kindly allow me space for a few words touching the purposes and work of the Harvard Civil Service Reform Club, concerning which I have received many inquiries...