Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Milton makes his fallen angels grow small to enter the infernal council room, but the soul, which God meant to be the spacious chamber where high thoughts and generous aspirations might commune together, shrinks and narrows itself to the measure of the meaner company that is wont to gather there, hatching conspiracies against our better selves. One is sometimes asked by young people to recommend a course of reading. My advice would be that they should confine themselves to the supreme books in whatever literature, or still better to choose some one great author, and make themselves thoroughly familiar with...
...Wetheril is second in command. The main object of the expedition is to see and locate the Grand Falls of Labrador, which are said to be the largest in the world, and which only four white men are known to have visited. Another object of the trip is to gather collections of the fauna and flora of Labrador, about which little is definitely known, for the interior of this country is the largest unexplored tract of land in America. The expedition will leave New York in the latter part of June, to return by the first of October. The party...
Courtney, the Cornell coach, has begun to gather men for this year's freshman crew. It is of course impossible to give any prophecy as to the probable merits of the crew, but with the material which the class has shown itself to contain, there is no reason to expect difficulty in developing a good eight...
...second half opened up with the flying wedge, but gained only five yards. A shout went up from the crimson grandstand. Yale answered, gather herself together and plowed through Harvard's left for repeated gains. A charge through the centre was also successful...
...invited by friends not in college. We students do not inform ourselves well enough concerning the things which lie right about us; we go to our lectures and recitations and are not curious enough about the buildings we enter to explore them at all; an immense class of undergraduates gather in the University Museum for a Geology or Botany lecture and never dreams that in the halls all about are magnificent collections of minerals and glass flowers and stuffed birds and animals. Whether the apathy is greater here than in other places we are not prepared to say; the thing...