Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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"It was first given to the venerated man whom we commemorate this day, first to strike the key note in the character of this people ; first to perceive with a prophet's foresight and to promote with a princely liberality, considering his means, that connection between private munificence and public...
As will be seen by a notice in another column The Union holds its first meeting of the year tonight for the election of officers for the ensuing half-year and to hear the semiannual reports of its recent work and present condition. The upper class men are, of course...
In the death of Greenough Thayer it has pleased our Heavenly Father, in the exercise of that divine wisdom which we can not question, to remove from our midst one who had already succeeded, in the brief time we have been together, in winning the esteem and trust of his...
In the first place, the board may be said to have greatly improved on the whole. The breakfasts and dinners are far superior to the corresponding meals of last year. The lunches however, are no better than before, while the desserts at dinner, or rather, the pastry is not so...
During the past year Cornell University has conceived the idea of establishing what is to be called a Correspondence University, where the instruction is to be given by correspondence alone. It is hoped that through this institution many persons may be reached, such as teachers in public and private schools...