Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cabinet representation in the House that it would do much to expedite business, as the general outline of legislation would be prepared in advance by the cabinet officers. This, he said, would give a uniformity to legislation that is impossible under the present system of committees, and would bring about a greater sympathy between the House and the executive...
...third speaker for Yale. He said that much time is now wasted in requests for information from the executive departments, and delays in the sending of replies have often resulted seriously. There should be free intercourse between the executive and the legislative. Cabinet membership would not only bring this about but would locate definitely the responsibility for the administrative policy...
...jugged hare-first catch your hare) to catch your thought or feeling as the case may be, perhaps I ought rather to say be caught by it. Let that be honest, manly and sincere. Then the problem is, like that of the girl with the water jar, to bring it home to your reader without spilling over. Now the study of literature is in great measure a study of style, and this if followed on true principles will react upon the character-will make us less tolerant of extravagance of mind, of loose statment, of inaccurate thought and of that...
...form of a meeting in Sanders Theatre, we think that it would be better not to have it so long as was the one of last year. A few simple words, and music are all that the occasion needs. The one purpose of the meeting would be to bring vividly to the minds of the students now within Harvard the spirit which moved Harvard men of another generation to give themselves to the country...
When a country is conquered and taken possession of by an emigrating tribe who bring with them their women and children, the material of the population is changed, the aborigines take refuge in the mountains and their language perpetuates itself there, as snow maintains itself all summer in certain mountainclefts inaccessible to the sun. But here a nation is conquered by an invading army, where the dynasty or governing class alone is changed; only so much of the language of the conqueror infuses itself as is absolutely necessary to the commerce of life, and the speech of the people gradually...