Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...School has just been given a valuable collection of Cypriote pottery by Prof. Allan Marquand. The collection, which is divided into wheel-made and hand-made specimens, includes a number of vases, amphorae, and lamps from Alambra, a village near the ancient town of Idalium. In addition to these, there are a number of terra cotta heads and masks, some of Greek and others of Pheanician origin. The decorations on all these potteries are incised and not painted on the surface, thus showing that they belong to some pre-historic...
...valuable and far more noble has been sacrificed. Fame, renown and honor have become weaker motives than they formerly were, and men's energies have been bent on the acquirement of material comfort and physical well-being. And, unfortunately, men's energies are not like water that turns the wheel of one mill and then flows on with undiminished vigor to the next; but like coal, which is consumed and lost in begetting steam. It is as true to-day as ever that man cannot serve two masters. What names can our civilization show among philosophers, poets and writers whose...
...call will be for new material. It is the classes left in college who must respond to this appeal. It is needless to say that '89 and '90 realize the responsibility thrown upon them, but the freshmen should be reminded that they too must put their shoulders to the wheel. Every man who has the welfare of the college at heart should go to the gymnasium and see if he is not good for something. Let him not be discouraged; nothing is accomplished without practice. If every man did his duty, and trained faithfully for that branch of athletics...
...about Harvard indifference are stale, flat, and alas! unprofitable. We all condemn selfishness in our neighbors and condone it in our ourselves. That is human nature, and Sam Slick says there is much human nature in all men; but we specialize in selfishness, and, like the hub of the wheel, move slowest; and if we progress at all it is by sheer force of inertia...
...says that cliques are in the very nature of things, if society is to remain unchanged; and evidently their existence postulates a community of interests, of opinions, of friendships in the members. As far as I can see, given a University Club, the result would be a number of wheels within its containing wheel - imperia in imperio...