Word: command
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...company with $100,000 capital is behind it, composed of some of the best literary and social elements of New York and Philadelphia. To a young man of a literary turn, who is able to command a small sum as an investment, in order that he may be a principle, a leading position is available, and an opportunity is offered for a name and a profitable life work. Technical newspaper training is not necessary. Idlers will please not write to us; we hope to hear from a young man who means business...
...Paul was. If we cannot see to find our own way into the way, we must trust to those who can see to lead us there, as he did. And, also, if we want to give help to others we must be in the way, for God's first command to Ananias was to that effect. Thus the whole of the Christian's life must be lived in this street which is straight, which leads from God to God, from glory to glory and from rest to rest...
...laid out on that portion of the Charles River embankment between Craigie's and the West Boston bridges. This feature is an open-air gymnasium, an affair unlike anything ever before attempted by a municipality. The plan is intended for the benefit of the working men, at whose command it will place the means for the improvement, development and exercise of the physical man. The whole plan is experimental, and its continuance will depend upon the manner in which the public takes to the idea...
...speedy, but fails to fathom the mysteries of the "drop." McPherson, '89, played in the out-field of his freshman team, and has pitched for the last two years. Schroll, '89, has done no ball playing while in college, owing to his crew work, but has good command of the ball and may develop into an able pitcher...
...ridicule the defeats of another college, and to make the spiteful accusations that it does. We cannot understand the spirit that has prompted the Spectator in these attacks upon other colleges, and are sure it is not that of the better element of Columbia. If the Spectator wishes to command any respect or retain any friends let it abandon sensational methods and this would-be facetious style of writing, and confine itself to honest, good-natured humor...