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Word: allowances (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...McCosh has also heard a rumor that morning prayers are to be discontinued at Harvard, and says: "If the Congregational churches in Massachusetts have the foresight and energy which I believe them to have, they will not allow a month to be passed without deliberation to be followed by action. If a college declares that it cannot do the work (the religious training of the students), surely the churches of Christ must undertake it for the youth of their own denominations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DR. McCOSH ON VOLUNTARY RECITATIONS. | 2/7/1873 | See Source »

...being able to secure it, rather than to take the chances of its being given up within a reasonable time. We therefore propose for consideration the expediency of placing a single jet, at least, in a position which shall throw a sufficient amount of light upon these papers to allow of their being read comfortably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR READING-ROOM. | 1/24/1873 | See Source »

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