Word: brande
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...with water from above, is particularly noticeable. For the last few years the tone of American college feeling on this matter has been very healthy, and it is not agreeable to perceive, in the organ of a New England college, indications of a change for the worse. In a brand-new Western institution, where boorish boys and silly school-girls are huddled together, very much as their copper-colored predecessors used to be huddled in their wigwams, such a thing might be pardonable. But in a college as old, as honored, and as Eastern as Bowdoin, the sense...
Fleeing the sword and brand...
...move again, when the exigencies of the country really needed it; but, meanwhile, meant to stay where she was, maintaining her own native and self-created policy, in spite of all the cries for novelty and so-called improvement from that part of the community which favored the brand-new institutions of the day, grinding out A. B.'s by patent machinery. They might leave out Harvard College in the cold if they chose, and stigmatize her studies, her habits, her buildings, her societies, as old-fashioned. Sooner or later they would all come back to her, as having discovered...
...consequently more enjoyable, than any number we have seen. Its articles are short and well selected. The leader evinces sound sense. Goethe's "Margaret" is, of course, commonplace in everything but the borrowed passages. "Richard Wagner and the Music Drama" is instructive, well written, and somewhat original. "On Brand's Piazza" attempts too much scenic effect for the powers of so young an author. No serious objections can be made to the poetry of the number. Nothing is absolutely poor, and there is much to commend...
...William's aspiration to succeed Ed ward the Confessor known publicly before Hilde brand acquired his paramount influence at Rome