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Word: cherish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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What we want to do is to turn out men fit, when any great crisis comes, to rise to their duty as did those whose names we now cherish here, men of thought in every walk of life, men who went out into the world of action, great statesmen, great soldiers, men like Washington who founded his country and Lincoln who saved it. The most important of all virtues are those that make men able to hold their own for themselves and their country. The man who has those qualities is the one who will make himself useful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A GOOD BEGINNING. | 1/27/1898 | See Source »

Chas. Grilk '98, welcomed the Freshmen for the upper classes and spoke of the committee of upper classmen to meet Freshmen. "I sometimes think that we cherish these sacred surroundings of ours more than at other places because we talk about them less." You will find there is no indifference but of snobs and idlers. Nor will you find any favoritism here except the favoritism of merit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECEPTION TO NEW STUDENTS. | 10/5/1897 | See Source »

...surpassed that of most of its predecessors, and which undoubtedly does a great deal to strengthen the feeling of loyalty to Harvard University. Although the members of the class may leave Cambridge now and scatter throughout the country, we can feel assured that they will always respect and cherish the tie that binds every Harvard man to his University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/24/1897 | See Source »

...University sends you into the world as missionaries, to organize our social interests in Christian order, to put the supreme thing first. Great sacrifices have been made in many homes that you might come here and your careers must be more than mere material successes. Cherish always a vision of the possible life and seek to live up to the ideas which are held of you by those blinded perhaps by parental love. It is the crowning glory of the American college that she exists for the nation; that as she receives recruits from all over the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACCALAUREATE SERMON. | 6/21/1897 | See Source »

With regard to Burns's place in literature, Mr. Copeland thought it profitable-instead of dwelling, as so many critics have done, upon what Burns did not accomplish in poetry-to note and cherish what he did accomplish. This divides itself easily into two classes-first such remarkable geure pictures of the life of the people as "The Jolly Beggars," "Halloween," and a dozen other vigorous examples; and second those keen, sweet songs in which the passions of patriotism, of drink, above all of love, are expressed with a perfectness and a concentration unequalled in modern literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Copeland's Lecture. | 3/25/1896 | See Source »

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