Word: command
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...founders. It has furnished guidance and instruction to twenty-one students. It has had the sympathetic support of twenty colleges. It has won confidence at home and recognition abroad. It has a suitable house, with accommodations both for the director and for students. It has at its command the services of a distinguished scholar. Under these circumstances its friends make their appeal for its permanent endowment with hope and confidence...
...seventieth year) and with the many duties that just now demand my instant and exclusive attention-for it is high time I should be putting my house in order-I feel that I am warranted in denying a petition which, under other circumstances, I should receive as a command, and in declining a duty to which, at best I could give but half of even what strength is left...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- The avowed purpose of the English department is not to produce individual writers or to foster phenomenal genius, but to aid every man, however poor his capabilities in that direction may be, to a fair command of English. Now, a regulation has appeared which refuses admittance to English 12, one of the most practical and useful courses in the English department, to any man who shall have fallen below a certain grade in English B; a grade which many a conscientious student may fail to reach by need of that very training which is thus forbidden...
There is rumor of a new grand stand to be erected on the field at Yale, which shall command a view of the track...
...life of self-command to be attained? Only through the religious life. And what is the substance of religion? The sum of the religious life, the preacher said, is faith. This does not means, as we so often hear it said, a system of belief, but a loyalty to a person, a soldierly obedience to God. It is only through this loyalty and subordination that our lives receive that power which enables them to exert power over those we seek to command...