Word: brought
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...Peabody Museum has received a number of gifts during the summer, some of which will form very valuable additions. The most important is the collection brought by Professor Agassiz on his return from his expedition in the Pacific Ocean. Most of the objects were taken from Western Polynesia and the Caroline Islands. They consist of domestic utensils, ornaments and weapons of all kinds. Dr. Woodworth of the Geological Department accompanied Professor Agassiz and collected many very odd objects through personal visits to the natives...
Again by the adoption of attractive and easy methods of work, with a careful regard to individual trails, the attempt to make education less forbidding, carried too far has resulted in robbing education of much of its mental discipline. The children brought up "along the lines of least resistance" are most often the intellectually spoiled children, "flabby of mind and will." "Education should first and foremost train; and training had for its very substance the overcoming of obstacles; furthermore, every specialty is better mastered, better understood in its relation to human life and achievement, by the man who has worked...
First inning -- Quinby beat out an infield hit and took second on Camp's out. Cook hit to right field for three bases, scoring Quinby. Sharpe struck out. Sullivan went to first on balls and stole second. Guernsey's single to center brought in both runners. Hirsh and Barnwell hit safely. Stillman took the throw to catch Guernsey and threw wild to the plate, allowing Guernsey to score and Hirsh to take third. Barnwell was caught attempting to take second on the play. For Harvard Kendall flied to Camp, and Coolidge and Wendell struck out. Score, Yale 4, Harvard...
...Cuban teachers who are to be in Cambridge this summer will be brought to the United States in five steamore. The Burnside will sail from Caba on June 24 with sixty-five men and sixty-seven Women; the Crook, sailing June 25, will carry three hundred and twenty-five men; the McPherson and the McClellan,--the first sailing June 26, the second June 27,--will each have aboard one hundred and eighty-six men and eighty-nine women and the Sedgwick, which is to sail June 27, will carry four hundred and seventy-five women. These steamers are expected...
...person rebuked in these words is Simon Magus, who, while journeying in Samaria, encounters St. Peter and St. John, who have brought the gift of a new illumination to the converts of the young deacon Philip. They have taught and blessed, and the marvelous tokens of this transforming presence straightway became manifest in them. Simon sees and wonders at it and eager to rouse a kindred ardor says: "Give me this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost." The text is St. Peter's answer...