Word: bring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Math. I. books will be returned this afternoon. Members of the section are requested to bring their examination papers...
...evil effects of the examination system have been often commented on. One point, however, has never been mentioned, and that is the disastrous result they bring upon the financial prosperity of the country. One of the Harvard square barbers says that every time the examinations come round his trade so falls off as to materially affect his profits. Probably, though, whatever the barber loses goes to the oil producer for "midnight oil," so that no serious crisis is imminent...
...raise a good eleven and awaken an interest in cricket throughout the college. In the first object they may reasonably hope for success. There are already a number of good cricket players in college, and with energy and steady practice there is no reason why they should not bring out a team able to make a good stand against the elevens from other universities. But in awakening a general interest in this sport the difficulties will be greater. In the first place, we have already three great branches of athletics that absorb most of the enthusiasm of the university...
...neutral committee, as it implies a lack of confidence in our respective committees and in their ability to settle questions which in former years the crew considered themselves competent to decide. We are of the opinion that your graduate committee having full power, the joint committee is competent to bring the whole matter to a satisfactory conclusion under any contingency. We are anxious to meet your crew the coming summer, but decline to accept your challenge until all the preliminaries for the race shall have been decided by our joint committee. Your reply will necessarily terminate this correspondence...
...clerical work. Let him store his memory with sermous, let him make abstracts of divinity systems, master the best exegetical commentators. Then, in a year or two, he would begin to catechise the young, to give addresses in the way of exposition, exhortation, encouragement and rebuke. Practice would bring facility. Might not, I say, seven years of the actual work, in the susceptible period of life, make a preacher of no mean power, without the grammar school, without the art classes, without the divinity hall...