Word: facings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first meeting of the Freshman Debating Club was not as well attended as it should have been. At this time of political excitement, when the people are brought face to face with problems of commanding interest, it seems strange that more students do not take the opportunity of hearing these questions debated and adding their own share to the discussion. A debate on topics of public interest not only gives one a better grasp on the the points at issue, but enables one to present them more clearly to his fellows. One is liable, at any time, to be called...
...face the situation like sensible Harvard men and show the President and his fellows that the confidence they are putting in our word is not misplaced. There is more depending on the result of our next celebration, whatever it be, than is clear at first sight, and it is our duty to be perfectly frank in discussing it. First and foremost the continuance of our intercollegiate contests is at stake, and this alone makes it a matter of the utmost consequence to every student in the University. It is the merest folly to say that the Faculty could not abolish...
...efforts of the younger members of the Faculty, and one of these men said last night that such extreme and reckless celebrations would have the effect of completely silencing them when the subject was next brought up in a Faculty meeting. This is the situation, and we must face it in a right and sensible way. Unless firearms and firecrackers are given up in celebrating the games that are to come, we shall probably lose our intercollegiate contests, both baseball and football, in the near future...
While for Thirty-three Years he moved among the Teachers and Students of Harvard College. and wist not that his Face shone...
...photographs, showing the face of the structure where the river has washed away a portion of it, illustrates the great wall one hundred feet in height. In this wall there is evidence that the place has been occupied at successive periods and that one city has been built over the ruins of another. The explorations of the Museum have shown that many of the large mounds are really the ruins of temples built of care fully cut blocks of stone. In these temples are a number of chambers, several of which have been cleared in the process of exploration...