Word: devotedness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Meanwhile we have seen the organization of a society for the purpose (in part at least) of making some study of French literature. We have too, more or less active societies devoted to History, Philosophy, Political Economy and the classics. Why then might not something of the kind be possible...
The scratch races were highly successful, and served as a fitting opening to a day devoted to the undergraduates. The exercises in Sanders Theatre, which are commented upon below, were highly successful, and the number present was almost unprecedented. The foot-ball game, in reality a game of "wallowing," was...
And who was John Harvard? We knew very little of his history a few years ago, and notwithstanding the labors of devoted antiquaries we now know little more than what was the line of his ancestry and how he acquired a fortune, which for the early days of the Colony...
A devastating breath more merciless than that of the flames, the rough and searching blasts of our Boston east winds, found or developed in that young and devoted life the seeds of consumption, and before he had time to impress his character upon the community in which he had cast...
Saturday, the last day of the jubilee, dawned bright and clear. The programme devoted the daytime to "verschiedene Ausfluge," which might be translated "go-as-you-please jubilations." In the evening came the illumination of the castle and bridge, a sight well worth seeing. Long before dark the streets were...