Word: fall
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...must, said he, learn to face the world and receive its abuse and censure. Our only help at such times is in the Lord. If we trust in Him, He is willing to aid us and our success is assured; but without his aid we are powerless and must fall...
...before reading a course of lectures, one should wait until he felt that he had mastered the subject in all its details, a sudden dumbness would fall over the professor's chair and the desk of the lyceum. At three score one would still be studying; at three score and ten he would still be meditating on what he had read, and ere he was ready with his inaugural discourse, his own headstone would be reading a pithy lecture on the shortness of life and the length of books. So true do we find it that wisdom is that
...intend to play football next fall meet at the gymnasium in the trophy room, today, at 4.30 sharp, dressed to play. Any one without a football suit will be provided for at the Carey building between...
...more or less experienced in debating. W. C. Douglas, Jr., L. S., of Philadelphia, received his preparatory education at the Berkeley School, Boston, where he was prominent as a speaker, being at one time president of the Berkeley debating society. He came to Harvard in '89, and in the fall of '92 spoke for the Harvard Democratic Club in a debate with the Economy Club of Cambridgeport. He has also taken English 6, and has spoken in public occasionally...
...University of Oregon, and graduated with the class of '92. During his college course he was freshman orator, speaker of the Cornell Congress, and " '86 Memorial" speaker. In his senior year he was also editor-in-chief of the Cornell Era. Since he entered the Harvard Graduate School last fall he has done little speaking...