Word: boast
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Note that nine of the 11 institutions that have more than five alumni in Congress are state universities. Note also that such great universities as Princeton, Cornell, Columbia and Pennsylvania have only three representatives each, or no more than several of our smaller New England colleges can boast. The figures perhaps prove little, but they have a very real interest, and we get a vivid impression that college friendships, as well as college intellectual training, count in public life when we see a picture of Speaker Clark and Mr. Mann, leader of the opposition, with their arms across each other...
...German arms received the lethal blow when the United States declared war. They cannot now help but fail. It has been a boast of the Hohenzollerns that each ruler added some bit to the Prussian land. The last of the Hohenzollerns will live to see that long and cruelly-wrested land snatched from him again. Will he remember Dixmonde when he hears the troops of the five great Powers crossing the Rhine? Will his heart bleed for Louvain afresh when the allies of democracy march through the plains of Prussia...
...lecture rooms and comfortable dormitories are all necessary, but they are unimportant compared to the character and standard of the University's teaching staff. The most humble and unpretentious of colleges enjoys a world-wide reputation if its faculty is composed of the best educational minds the country can boast of. Harvard has for years been noted for the great teachers and scholars which are numbered among her professors. During the last decade many of her most renowned and valuable professors have been lost for unavoidable reasons. Harvard must fill the vacancies made by the loss of these men with...
...charity means anything, if that Christianity which we indifferently boast of means anything, then the Yule-tide is far more than a time for personal satisfaction...
...room itself is an invaluable addition to the Library. It is an exceptional combination of beauty and utility. Probably no other university can boast of so sumptuous a room devoted entirely to reading for pleasure. When a student has a few minutes to spare he can spend them most profitably in its comfortable arm-chairs. For his selection the walls are lined with the classics of English literature in the most attractive editions. He will be furnished with books of immediate interest in the growing collection of writings on the war by Harvard men. On the whole the room will...