Word: bring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...series of lectures, addressed to the students of theology but open to the public, will be given in the chapel of Divinity Hall, on Thursday evenings, beginning February 21. They are similar to the series given last year, though the speakers are not the same. The object is to bring before the divinity students gentlemen connected with the university, who are not teachers in that department. The speakers are: The Rev. Phillips Brooks and the Rev. J. Fev. J. F. Clarke of the board of overseers, Professor William James of the philosophical department, Professor N. S. Shaler of the scientitic...
...later in life take to journalism as a profession, the practice in putting one's thoughts into such form as shall interest others is of incalculable advantage. We may have the materials for the best thinkers of the age in our midst, but they take no trouble to bring out their powers, and so never find they have them. And to any man it is of the greatest importance to be able to put his thoughts, when occasion requires, into good form. Now there are but few men who can do this without a good deal of practice...
...Boston several years ago, and which in reality was only a harmless affair. We heartily hope that such is the case and that the Pennsylvanian students have not lowered the credit of their Alma Mater by any such display of boyishness and thoughtlessness. If it is true, it will bring discredit not only on them but on students elsewhere. For people are only too apt to put the whole mass of students in the country in the same class and judge them all by some reports of thoughtless acts which appear In the common newspapers...
Senior-"Do you know why our college is such a learned place?" Freshman-"Of course; the freshmen always bring a little learning here, and the seniors never take any away, it naturally accumulates...
...last the university has become desperate and thinks to frighten American colleges into rowing with her by declaring that unless within sixty days her challenges are accepted she will claim the championship of America. By all means let her claim it if it will bring her any satisfaction, but if she expects that 'public opinion' will support her claim we fear she is doomed to bitter disappointment...