Word: cannot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...American people, and an appreciation of their mission before the nations of the earth, should make him a patriotic man; while the tales of distress which reach him from the humble and the lowly, from the afflicted and from the needy in every corner of the land, cannot but awake his tenderest sensibility and his kindest impulses. [Applause...
...cannot better learn to appreciate the improvement which the University has undergone in the two hundred and fifty years that have elapsed since its foundation, than by glancing for a moment at the early and primitive stages of its development...
...which Mr. Lowell more than almost any other American has laid away in the storehouse of his thought, - jewels of such worth as these could not fail to and charm his hearers. The poem was well worthy of the occasion and the distinguished and appreciative, though critical, audience. We cannot help deploring that this audience was composed so largely of ladies - and this is said with no lack of chivalric regard. When Harvard becomes a co-educational institution we shall not say a word if the same proportions between the sexes are maintained as those of yesterday in Sanders...
...must relate a repetition of the glorious music of the morning enhanced by the excellent quartette of the four graduate voices. But still more, who shall speak of the beauties and magnificence of the grand sermon by Rev. Phillips Brooks? Two thousand listeners must try to answer; we cannot...
...Garrison's intense and soulful words written to the melody of Harvard's immortal hymn, cannot be too highly praised. Into those two stanzas he breathed the true inspiration of the occasion, and the loud peal of applause by which they were followed, testified to the deep impression which his beautifully conceived thoughts had made on his hearers...