Word: dispel
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many happy hours we have spent together as well as those dull ones which his presence has brightened and cheered. This sad loss, so near the end of our college course fills our hearts with a gloom of sadness which our coming festivities here will be powerless to dispel...
...have touched upon this subject, not so much to sustain my opinion upon the relative expenses of the Harvard and Yale crews, which is, after all, of no very great importance, but in order to dispel an apparently prevalent opinion, that the money put down in the treasurer's reports as paid out, represents the actual running expenses for the year. It is this unfounded opinion, I feel confident, that has caused much of the misapprehension, and misunderstanding concerning the crew...
...were rich with suggestions for those who could profit by them. His early life, before he came to this country to be-come in an almost accidental way a teacher of the teachers in Greek learning, was shrouded in a mystery, real or apparent, which he always refused to dispel. Born near Mount Pelion and educated in the Mount Sinai Monastery, he, for some unexplained reason, came to this country when a young man, and after a period of study drifted into teaching, and became finally one of the most distinguished members of the Harvard faculty. [Times...
...affair of routine, that the sum of their duties lies in a general mastery of the text-books provided, promptness in recitations and at lectures, if there happen to be any, and good lessons when called upon to recite. It should be the office of professors and teachers to dispel this erroneous or rather imperfect conception of the means and methods by which an education is to be obtained ; but on the contrary they too often encourage it, because it makes their recitations appear to advantage and saves trouble. It is a lamentable fact, however, that the men in college...
...well in some event. As the success of the meetings is materially increased by a large number of entries this diffidence a great drawback. I have been very much struck with this ever since I have been connected with the association and I believe everything should be done to dispel it. I have no doubt that there are some men in each class who if they were not afraid of "making fools of themselves," as the saying is, would make very creditable records and add to Harvard's prizes at the in tercollegiate games. The practice of sending cards above...