Word: calling
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...would call attention to the discussion of our boat-club system to be found in another column. It must be evident to all who have given attention to the subject, that some radical change is necessary in order to place boating within the reach of the majority of the students. We think that the plan proposed would, if put into execution, popularize boating, and at the same time greatly aid the University Crew. If any one has a better plan, now is the time to make it known, so that no time may be lost in making the changes...
...hackmen revel in happiness, the benevolent shop-keeper presents a countenance wreathed with smiles, the ancient washerwomen stand around in public places, and, uplifting their skinny hands, call down all sorts of blessings on our heads. "Yes, the 'stoodints' have certainly come. Waiter-girls smirk, boarding-school girls smirk, New Haven girls smirk, even one or two less-anile-than-usual washerwomen have been observed to smirk; in short, New Haven is one great mouth on a grin. And we are all up a notch...
...hope, the Christian armies are moving to the Bosphorus to restore, as I trust, the cross to the citadel of Sophia. I see a magnificent highway on which humanity is marching to her high and noblest destiny; and you, young men, are the persons that I call upon, to let us live with you. act with you, and encourage you, cheer you on, in order that you may accomplish for your country a name...
...post abroad, where he will have to tread in the footsteps of Washington Irving, has done honor to Harvard University, honor to him, and honor to the administration which made it, and will do honor to the country. I mean Professor Lowell of Harvard University. Him I call upon to respond to the toast: 'The highest use of learning is one of the most potent of the agencies to produce the highest order of public life...
WHEN I came here first I was furnished by my father with a list of his friends in Cambridge, on whom he wished me to call. Of course I did not look on these calls with enthusiasm; but I decided that I would visit one a month, - there were nine of them, - and so have it over by the annuals...