Word: account
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Nation of this week contains a long account of the career of Mr. Theodore Roosevelt...
...Wendell recently gave a talk on the above subject, which was so interesting that we venture to publish an account made up from notes taken at the time...
...literature. He recommends, in the place of any systematic course of reading, a general rummage among all writers who come favorably to one's notice. When the interest has been aroused by an allusion to an author whom one knows only by name, do not be satisfied with the account of a cyclopedia, nor with selected extracts, but get access to the author's complete works, read a bit here and a bit there, get some idea of what he has written. By this process the reader will be attracted by what best pleases him, and will at length learn...
...different shades. It seems to me that a college color should be as invariable as the college seal. Certainly it would give more an air of unity, and, on the whole, a better appearance, to have the crimson about the various teams and crews of the same shade. An account of the origin of our color would be of interest, and would increase, I think, a desire to have a uniform shade...
...Windsor, lies Eton, or rather the school, which gives its name to the few surrounding hamlets. The school was founded as early as 1441, by Henry the Sixth, and has ever since come under the care and personal supervision of the monarchs of England, who frequently were visitors on account of the nearness of the school to Windsor Castle. From a paltry hundred, including masters and fellows, the attendance has now increased to 850 scholars alone, and the roll of instructors equals many a small college. As in the case of most of the large English schools, all the governing...