Word: bestowal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...heard of after graduation. The man who will succeed and whose training will do the greatest good to himself and to others is the man who, while not neglectful of his studies, adds to this an appreciation of the practical experience which the college life is so ready to bestow, and in the literary or scientific undergraduate societies, on the staff of a college paper, and in a dozen other possible ways, takes advantage of the rich opportunities to strengthen himself in body and mind. The ambition to lead one's class is not, of itself, a high ambition...
...advantageous to the Annex it might be. But the fact that this great good fortune is denied to the Annex is no reason why no other fortune should fall to it. It is to be hoped that there will soon appear some wealthy person or persons who will bestow upon this really worthy institution, the Harvard Annex, some good and well equipped buildings and spacious grounds, which shall be at once modestly far from and conveniently near to the university. If it is desirable, and the writer does not presume to say that it is not, to advance the higher...
...either of the two of which we speak, unless the course be made a full course and the lecture system adopted in place of the too elementary method of study which is at present pursued in English VII. In this way the student would have ample time to bestow upon the work of the course, and could feel that the course would repay the close study bestowed upon...
...grandmother, some sixty odd years ago, on her wedding day. Since then it has led a quiet, unpretending existence in the old house, until a year or so ago it was thought best to send it to college to receive those finishing touches that a university course alone can bestow. So now I recline upon it with my back against a cushion, while I smoke a pipe and think of the many personal associations I have had with this old settler. If it had but a tongue as serviceable as its stout old legs, what a tale it could tell...
...again with kind insistence the doctrines which are so easy to the more enlightened mind, never forgetting that consideration which is due to a blood relation,-this is a duty calling into play all the self-assurance and confident superiority which even a careful training of four years can bestow...