Word: committed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...once uttered the following words: "I believe I made tolerable progress in most branches which I attended to while in this school, but there was one thing I could not do-I could not make a declamation; I could not speak before the school. Many a piece did I commit to memory, and recite and rehearse over and over again; yet, when the day came, when the school collected to hear the declamations, when my name was called, and I saw all eyes turned to my seat. I could not raise myself before...
...make a man develop a bad style. If any person doubts this, let him look at the River Thames on a Saturday afternoon. From Teddington to Wadsworth it is covered with boats, which are being rowed and sculled by persons exhibiting every possible fault that an oarsman can commit. The round back, the hanging head, the wriggling body, these are only a few of the hideous distortions observable on every side. How are they to be accounted for? Simply by this, that the wretched creatures who indulge in them are too proud to take a lesson. Go and suggest...
...sort of thing is to be expected in the books of a public library, used by a miscellaneous class of readers; but it is humiliating that a student in Harvard College-for we cannot but assume that a student was the guilty person-should not know better than to commit such an act of vandalism. Any marking of books belonging to a library is wrong; but such defacement as this has the additional demerit of being excessively silly...
...meeting had been called for the purpose of securing a better common understanding on the topic named between faculty and students. The discussion would be entirely informal, and each member of the faculty present should be construed in his remarks as expressing merely his private opinion and not as committing the faculty to any course. As he had lately expressed his views in print in his annual report he would not continue with further comment. Debate then turned upon the question of professionalism in college athletics, on which subject Professors White and Shaler expressed themselves at some length. The faculty...
...programme of the business of the day is published, and from the heading of this paper, which is underscored either once, twice, three or four times, he is able to judge as to the necessity of his appearance. The worse breach of party discipline which a member can commit is a failure to respond to a four lined "whip...