Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Walter Scott, D. D. principal of the Philips-Exeter Academy, has resigned to accept the managership of the literary interests of a large Chicago publishing firm...
...society heretofore has been a kind of experiment, but a repetition of the success of the theatricals given last year, will put the society on a firm basis and insure its prosperity. The benefits derived from a society like the Conference are totally different from any which can be obtained from the academical department of the univeraity, yet they are of great importance, and can be obtained only from some such source...
...view of this incomparable character than the younger children can reach. They learn of his great part in that immortal federal convention of 1787, of his inestimable services in organizing and conducting through two presidential terms the new government-services of which he alone was capable, and of his firm resistance to misguided popular clamor. They seehim ultimately vietorious in war and successful in peace but only through much adversity and over many obstacles...
...minutes 1 1-2 inches. Perry was caught soon after this trying to heave and lost about 3 inches more, so that when time was called Columbia won by 4 inches. The Columbia men excited considerable comment by their leather shoulder guards which they varnished and resigned until a firm grip for the rope was formed...
...college library has recently received as a gift a very useful collection of textbooks from the publishing firm of Longwood, Green and Co., of London. The collection numbers 164 volumes in all, and although a number of the books are duplicates of volumes already in the library, still the collection is very welcome...