Word: england
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...perhaps a fact worth mentioning that, although most of the revision was done in England, the idea was conceived and the work begun by Clough here in Cambridge during his brief residence in America...
...matter of fact, the disagreeable weather of last week may be taken as a fair example of English weather. The success of the Oxford or Cambridge man is not owing so much to his constitution and climate, as to his pertinacity in carrying out whatever he undertakes. Men in England will train honestly for a month at least before the day of the sports for which they enter. They will give up smoking, drinking, and late hours, and will do every day what they know they must do in order to secure a place. Who is there at Harvard that...
...still retains the word "Harvard" on its titlepage, an effort will be made - as its editors announce - to "de-localize" it, and it is designed to have it fill, as far as possible, the place which has always been vacant in American journalism, - the place which is supplied in England by Punch...
...PRESIDENT: The cordial greeting I have met here, as well as at all other points in New England where I have been, convinces me of the truth of what you have said. My friends, we have but one country now. It has no North, no South. It is undivided and inseparable...
...University, who returns to the fair scene of his youthful studies bringing sheaves of honor with him. We salute in him our beloved country, the beautiful, sweet mistress of us all. In her service Harvard has never counted any sacrifice too costly. Founded when Charles I. was King of England, this institution shared to the full the poverty and hardships in which the nation was cradled. When President Washington visited the College the whole value of the land, buildings, collections, and securities belonging to the President and Fellows was less than the sum of the bequests and gifts which have...