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Word: bulwark (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that only from his associations with those about him can there arise anything to cause in him a worthy self-respect. Dr. Peabody applied the thought to the student, and in a broader sense to the University. He spoke also, of the ideal Harvard, which shall be, not a bulwark against ignorance, not a hall of learning, but a temple...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vesper Service. | 3/29/1889 | See Source »

...certainly not complain of our prospects in this branch of athletics, but we must not be so short-sighted as to expect that we can claim the prize without taking thought of the future. Some of our best players will go out with '88 and although '89 is a bulwark of strength we must not depend on her too much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Tennis Courts. | 4/18/1888 | See Source »

...literature. In this epic we find the determination of Zeus to relieve the earth of its surplus population by a destructive war given as the cause of the Trojan war. In furtherance of this plan, Thetis was given in marriage to Peelers, that their son Achilles might be the bulwark of the Greeks. This marriage was one of the episodes which particularly attracted the vase-painters, and was subjected to endless variations in artistic handling. The Judgment of Paris was also a favorite subject in every period, although the art-types were very different in the archaic age from those...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lecture on Greek Vase-Paintings. | 3/3/1888 | See Source »

...Princetonian considers "pure orthodoxy a bulwark" against the decay of the college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/17/1885 | See Source »

...happiness and prosperity. The delegation of students left much impressed with the excellent management and the generous courtesy of the Willimantic Company. The Yale News devoted a page of its issue to a glowing description of the trip and all seemed lovely. Yale was henceforth to be the bulwark of protection and Prof. Sumner had lost his profession. But by and by a cloud arose on the horizon. The protectionists had been too fast in drawing their conclusions. It seems that there is one man left at Yale besides Prof. Sumner who remains unconvinced, and he has the bad taste...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/8/1883 | See Source »

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