Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...visited the college, they held all their conversations with the president for the time being in the Latin language. [Laughter.) This delightful custom has lately fallen into disuse and the present occasion marks its complete abandonment. [Laughter.] Indeed, the intercourse between the high officials at the present time is expressed in words quite intelligible and widely current and the honorary degrees of the great university have today, for the first time in her history been conferred in the welcome vernacular. [Applause.] But sir, I know no higher duty at this time than the renewing of the heroic element exemplified...
Competitors should have a friend send their matter by registered mail or express, to preserve the secrecy of their identity, addressed to The Railroader, Washington, D. C., and marked "Prize Competition," to distinguish it from other manuscripts we are receiving...
...Peck, for we should be forced to quote nearly every sentence of the article. We fail to see how a man of any breadth of mind who is a believer in human goodness, could, with knowledge of the affairs of our college and experience in the life among us, express such opinions as Mr. Peck has presented. Our best answer is, "Come and see!" For our admiration for the systems which now prevail in our university and for the life and ideals which are the outcome of such elevating systems, are so strong that we are powerless to express...
...Monthly will be out to-day at two o'clock. The leading article by Dr. Phillips Brooks, on Henry H. Richardson, the architect, is a fascinating sketch. It is an admirable portrayal of the inner life of a man who sought to express in his work the higher ideals which he cherished. The peculiar delicacy and enthusiasm of Dr. Brooks' touch is here seen at its best. The The succeeding paper, "The Hermit Thrush," by Mr. G. P. Baker, is particularly happy in one respect - that of tone. There are one or two striking lines, and upon the whole this...
Whereas it has pleased an inscrutable Providence to take from among us our beloved and honored classmate, William Francis Austin, Resolved, That words cannot express the deep grief we feel at his untimely death...