Word: true
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nominal existence in the Index; but if the energetic men of '74 were to take a look at the inside of Harvard College life to-day, they would not be disappointed in finding energetic and progressive successors. Das Verein, Le Cercle Francais, and the ??? are no more, it is true; but look at the societies that have replaced them...
...will have such a hearty support as to justify its repetition another year. The students in German thus far have not encouraged anything of the sort. An excellent course in reading at sight last year attracted but few, and therefore was not given again this year. It is true that students are not as well acquainted with German as with French; yet if all who would find these readings of profit should attend, there would be no lack of numbers...
...vast that it covers all the actions of life, from bawling in the cradle to delivering a Class Day oration, and is as uncertain as it is grand. All its admirers, however, unite in condemning certain actions as objectionable, and these, of course, are to be avoided by every true thing-worshipper...
Second Division. "Is it true that, as the Boundaries of Science are enlarged, the Empire of Imagination is diminished...
...Archangel, true to its motto of "Religion and Science," comes to us with edifying articles on "Evil Company," "Religious Principle of Public Liberty," "The Jesuits," "Art of Sculpture," etc. The Archangel's lighter side consists of the usual newspaper clippings, such rhetorical questions as "Who is not wishing for happy Summer Days?" and the new and original joke, "Will the Russians eat Turk-ey on Thanksgiving?" Its one solitary editorial, apropos of nothing, informs us that "hardly a day dawns" but Americans are "startled by the publication of a new book." Should this be a story-book...