Word: clamoring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...than the younger children can reach. They learn of his great part in that immortal federal convention of 1787, of his inestimable services in organizing and conducting through two presidential terms the new government-services of which he alone was capable, and of his firm resistance to misguided popular clamor. They seehim ultimately vietorious in war and successful in peace but only through much adversity and over many obstacles...
...kindly accused the students in History 13 of laziness because they clamor for a list of general readings - a just observation, perhaps, but let us look at the situation for a moment. '88 does his topic reading, and, if we can judge from the tone of his communication, he does it with marked success. He can always find the books, and that is exactly the reason we can't. After the lecture we go to the library and find that "88 has the reserved book in queseion, and sadder still, the only reserved book. If there is no impropriety...
...always healthy itself in the absolute and universal truth. And now it is the privilege of festival times like those which our college is to keep to-morrow, that in them the past friends feel anew its deep relations to the whole of things. That which the clash and clamor of detail, the necessary absorption of busy life in its own operations has shut out, and silence presses in and makes itself heard. The universal claims, the special, the infinite and eternal, makes itself known to the temporary and the finite. The planet stops one second to wonder...
...scholastic learning," and indicates quite (?) that Harvard "has sold its (?) right for a mess of pottage." They are mature announcement of the change has thus done considerable mischief Since the faculty are but human, it can hardly be expected of them, in the face of this violent and irrational clamor to come to their final decision in the matter in a perfectly calm and unbiased spirit. No man can be subjected to such savage criticism, and not become either obstinate or fainthearted under it. This question of admission requirements, however, is one which should be decided neither by partisan feeling...
...time has at length arrived for our semi-annual editorial on the propriety of handing in blue books at these last few recitations of the first half-year. In a few weeks we shall all be clamoring for the return of these selfsame blue books from our instructors, -the self-same books, it is true, but also, how changed. It therefore seems but simple justice that we should heed the lesser clamor of our instructors and turn over to their keeping for a few days the books in which "what we do not know" will soon be written...