Word: cloquent
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...Renaissance. From the medleval scribesmen, from the letters of Petrarch, he devised the beautiful type which even today is reserved for the greatest books. From the scribesmen also he took the manuscripts on which for centuries they had been perpetuating the classics: he printed them with copious and cloquent notes, and scattered them throughout the libraries of Italy. Out of these the artists of the Renaissance took the sudden vision and the new ideal which made them famous...
...given to thinking, is already chafing under the hard task-master, the May examinations. He remembers that some of Harvard's finest "illustri"--Emerson, for example, and Thoreau keeping himself in the pink of condition waiting for something to turn up and Henry Adams with his cloquent disenchantment in his "Education", and Roosevelt, and John Reed, and Walter Lippman and a host of others--he remembers that these men were all given to an internal species of question and wonderment as to what four years of undergraduate life could possibly have meant to them Thinking along similar lines, the Senior...
...mass meeting at the Union last night, William Roscoe Thayer '81, Roosevelt's college friend and foremost biographer, traced the main events of the Colonel's career, and closed with an cloquent plca that all Harvard men subscribe to the Roosevelt Memorial Fund, no matter how small their contributions. J. G. King, Jr., '20, Chairman of the Harvard Committee for the Roosevelt Memorial Fund, followed with an appeal for further support of the drive, and pledges were distributed throughout the audience. After a moving picture of various haunts and friends of Roosevelt in the West, it was found that...