Word: done
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting held last night in the Old South Church, Boston, in the interest of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, President Lowell was the first speaker. He introduced Booker T. Washington, the principal speaker, as a man who has done more than any other for the elevation of the Negro race, and a man who should be universally admired and respected...
...last few years the Medical and Law Schools, and now the Dental School, have moved into new quarters, commensurate in the convenience of their equipment with the growing importance of the work done in those departments. The achievements in chemistry, even in the unfavorable conditions that have handicapped routine and original work alike, have been of equal value. With modern buildings for their investigations, Professor Richards and his colleagues may reasonably expect to secure results of greater significance...
...merit. E.E. Hunt, in his modern rendering of "Sir Orfeo," shows genuine literary conscience in sticking to the spirit of the original and in avoiding plenty of chances to decorate the phrasing. "A Shell Found Inland" proved a truly poetic find for J. G. Gilkey, who would have done better, nevertheless, to tell of it in two stanzas rather than in three. The rest of the verse and all of the fiction, save for passages here and there, have already been noticed at the beginning of this review...
...ought to have a vocation and an avocation, but I know of a man who has four vocations, and made a success of each of them. Our guest of the evening has been a lawyer, a reformer in public life, an educator, and a college president; and he has done all of these with singular success, and in a way to excite the admiration of all who know him. I think he might speak with authority upon each of the four vocations I have mentioned, but he has chosen "Education" for his subject this evening. I wish to present...
...first place, to clear the way, education as a profession is essentially an art. One may have made a profound study of the science of education and yet have had no experience whatever in practical work. We all understand that some of the very best work that has been done in the science of education, has been done by those outside of our ranks. So I take it that it is not concerning that sort of educational career that you wish me to speak. Herbert Spencer would be an example of the men who have made notable contributions to education...