Word: famed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...recollection of the time when in these halls we were trained for the duties of active life. We welcome cordially the body of young men who this day have been added to our numbers, in the hopes that they, in their turn, will uphold the ancient name and fame of the University, will show that it has a right to exist in the men whom it produces from year to year. As arms are for those who can use them, so education is for those who can make it valuable; and we trust that it will prove that the influences...
...know that an honored degree of the University was to be bestowed upon so unworthy a person as himself. But the less his merit the greater their bounty, and thus could they measure what was due to them by their generosity to him. The name and fame of fair Harvard were not theirs alone, and he had always had his share, as an American citizen, in its honorable name and fame. He felt the honor that had been conferred upon him, and with it a responsibility, for in the title was a new claim for upright and honorable action...
COLLEGE papers of that class which delight their readers with articles on "Character," "Fame," and the "Whole Duty of Man," have been greatly distressed this year because our papers have given up so much space to matters relating to Memorial Hall, and the Yale papers even have failed to find interesting some of our discussions on the commons. These papers probably do not know how great an institution our Dining Association is, and how intimately the students are connected with its management. They do not know that the Hall, which in a year does a business as great...
...case some thirty men have been compelled to sit for an hour in a small room with closed doors and windows." In one of the large halls in the University of Leipzig more than two hundred students are gathered together to listen to the learned Professor Curtius, whose fame is now world-wide. Here I have repeatedly sat during the hottest days of July, when not a single one of the dozen large windows was ever opened. And there we had to sit and breathe, however much we might feel that the wise things the lecturer was saying were reaching...
...CHILD, in his lecture on Chaucer at the Lowell Institute last Wednesday evening, spoke of the author's "Troilus and Cressida" and of the "House of Fame." On next Saturday he will treat of the "Legend of Good Women...