Word: around
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...President of the University, this is a rare felicity, that, as we stand together contemplating the grand triumphs of the centuries that have passed, we stand in the presence of that grand nation, born of the impulses that sprang up here and around us, and that we are permitted to signalize this event by our tributes of honor and appreciation to the distinguished, able, patriotic chief magistrate, the President of the United States. [Cheers; loud applause...
...great whole of truth which it utters; if it does not it becomes untrue. Each star must quiver with the movement of the system, or it is a mere waif and stray of brilliance, living at 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...
...this portion of the American people. And who were these men, the larger part of whom were from Cambridge, and of whom at least a score were from Emmanuel? There was Simon Bradstreet, destined to span the two charter-periods of New England, and to be the veteran around whom the old-charter men rallied after the deposition of Andros. There was John Cotton, another son of Emmanuel, and what would early Boston have been without him and John Wilson, the leaders of its first church, - Cotton of Lincolnshire, bringing here the saintly memories of Botolph's town, and Wilson...
...Only seven of them are her seniors: Bologna (1140), Paris (1142), Oxford (1200), Padua (1222), Salamanca (1250), Prague (1348), Vienna (1356). Among these seven only one, Oxford, can claim to rival her in glory. It was to be expected that when the five hundredth anniversary of her birthday came around, not only the alumni of the university and the inhabitants of Heidelberg, but scholars of every name and tongue, from all over Christendom, would flock together to take part in the glorious celebration. For weeks beforehand the whole city was in a bustle of anxious preparation. There was erected...
...bogus sailors are around again this gear with their "smuggled" cigars. They are "imported" from Boston and wholesale at ten dollars a thousand. Freshmen beware...