Word: age
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hundreds of men forced to board away from the college yard because of a lack of dormitories. The members of the university are, indeed, grateful for any improvement of the university property, even if that improvement be the gilding of the Gore Hall steeples. But this is a practical age. It is true that "we cannot live by bread alone," but bread is quite necessary. If money is to be left to the university, why cannot some benefactor not gain immortality for himself and his gift by leaving his bequest wholly under the jurisdiction of the university government...
...second lot of Von Sybel's Kleine Historische Schriften is ready. Also Dobson's Eighteenth Century Essays. Taine's Ancient Regime and Creighton's Age of Elizabeth. The society will not keep Soule Photograph Co.'s photographs in stock after the present stock has been disposed of. The stock on hand has been reduced to close out. The best boxing gloves at $6.00 per pair; commonly retailed at $7.00 per pair. Thermometers in stock at 10 cents each...
...second lot of Von Sybel's Kleine Historische Schriften is ready. Also Dobson's Eighteenth Century Essays. Taine's Ancient Regime and Creighton's Age of Elizabeth. The society will not keep Soule Photograph Co.'s photographs in stock after the present stock has been disposed of. The stock on hand has been reduced to close out. The best boxing gloves at $6.00 per pair; commonly retailed at $7.00 per pair. Thermometers in stock at 10 cents each...
...Samuel Dana of Marblehead, dated March 11, 1850, and at one side of the paper in the same hand-writing is the Lord's Prayer, covering a space just the size of a ten cent piece, and over it has been written, "The Lord's Prayer written at the age of seventy without spectacles." So fine is the hand-writing that it is scarcely intelligible to the naked...
...random in the sky. Each article of faith must feel the creed around it. Each class in the community must live in the larger life of the community which is above all classes and embraces all. Each notion must be a part of the federation of the world. Each age in history must be conscious of all human history in whose embrace it is held, and of the vast eternity in which all the history of this world is all the time living, as a cloud swims in the limitless sky. The christian in the church, the citizen...