Word: us
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...clearly brought out in his last poems which have been grouped and published in a little volume entitled "Asolando" in memory of the charm of his Italian days. While Mr. Browning's death has of course stimulated the public interest in his work, the little group of poems before us will of a certainty live by their own merit. They lack as a whole, perhaps, the mystical character which he imparted to his earlier works, and yet like these they mingle the worlds of fact and fancy. Love, humor, pathos, all find place here and the classic and the modern...
...timely. Columbia will of course request a freshman race, as will also Yale. That is to be taken for granted. The question, then, is of a choice between the two, since it is not likely our crew will consent to row a three cornered race. Now there seems to us no valid reason why Harvard should row Columbia this year. The record of Harvard-Columbia freshman races shows an easy superiority for Harvard. In addition to this our defeat of two years ago-the only special argument which Columbia can now pretend to urge-was completely wiped...
...there are still further reasons which deserve consideration in connection with this matter. There is, it seems to us, a general desire on the part of the faculty and students to restrict Harvard athletics. Here, then, is one opportunity to remove a possible bone of contention. If we confine our freshman race to Yale there will be less trouble in the future, less difficulty of management. We shall thus bring our athletics more upon their proper basis-as a feature, but not as the purpose, of our college life...
...civilization makes the study of their career a necessary part of a university programme. It is becoming more and more evident that neither ancient nor modern culture can be properly understood without a careful estimate of the Semitic element. The significance of Semitic religious ideas is familiar to us; however we may explain it, the fact remains remarkable that the three monotheistic religions of the world, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, are of Semitic origin and that they today (if we except Confucianism in China). control the progressive nations of the earth. To understand the beginnings of Greek art we must...
There remains yet much to be done in the investigation of Semitic thought; the history is to be cleared up, and the literature to be expounded and made intelligible to the modern mind. No small part of the poetry of the Hebrews and Arabs is a sealed book to us though it undoubtedly contains much material that has aesthetic as well as archaeological value. The study of all this mass of history and literature, archaeology and religion is the proper function of a university. The co-existence in a great institution of learning of a number of specialists in various...