Word: variousness
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...verse, others have known how to depict passion and unfold character: but no one else has given us these transverse sections of the world, where we see the prince and the beggar side by side, each thinking his own thoughts and speaking his own language; where we see the various intrigues and passions jostling one another as they hurry along the highway of life...
...love-making. So his life drifts along until his wife dies. Then he is plunged into bitter grief-a grief so honest that we are forced to respect it, for grief, somehow, throws a mantle of dignity around even a fool. Yet his sorrows are much aggravated by various causes-among others a natural fear taking root in his mind that perhaps he would be condemned to Hell on his death. He speaks of "the want of absolute certainly of being happy after death, the sure prospect of which is frightful." And for a year he is the picture...
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...Bowen of the senior class has been engaged for some months in preparing a lecture upon Harvard, which he intends to give during the coming summer, in various cities and towns of the country. Feeling, however, that the most critical audience would be those most concerned-Harvard students themselves,-the gentleman has kindly consented to give a private rehearsal of his lecture this evening before the members of his class, to whom he has accordingly sent invitations. The lecture, we learn, will be called "Harvard University, or, What I saw at College," and will be illustrated by stereopticon views. Among...
...freshman year. Thus the preparatory schools are in reality the test of our weakness, or our strength. It is to them that we should turn our attention to alleviate our present distress. This spring should witness a greater number of contests between our freshmen and second nines, and the various school teams. If the school teams could be made to feel that the eyes of the Harvard management of athletics were on them, there would be an increase of vigor to a degree hitherto unknown. Nor should we stop with base ball. In the autumn let us send out foot...