Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Very little has been left us concerning John Harvard's life in this country, still less is known of it in the mother-land, and we are driven to the scanty records of what he did that we may glean a few points, at least, in regard to his character...
The instructors of the youths were divided into two classes, and all had an equal social position in the democracy. Their places of instruction were built together and there the youth of Athens spent their days; one class taught how to search for the beautiful, the other taught beauty itself...
Gov. Long stated that he also spoke as an atonement for the past. Nobody questions the extent of the evils of intemperance fostering nine-tenths of all crime, with its immense cost, equal to the amount of the manufacturing wages of the United States. Harvard men are always full of...
The election of a member of the faculty to the position of president of the Co-operative Society, besides adding to the stability of the character of the society in some measure, is likely to have an excellent effect in bringing about a greater interest and active participation by the...
Joseph Cook in his last Monday's lecture at Tremont Temple has given his ideas of what should be the habitual train of thought of college youth. He should try, Mr. Cook insists, to keep alive the celestial fire of conscience. "A young man who allows himself to be ridden...