Word: give
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...read a paper containing the propositions of the people of New London, which were of a most generous and satisfactory nature. The final action of Convention in favor of Saratoga was largely due to the fear that the river at New London would not be wide enough to give a straight course to all the contestants in the next regatta. Saratoga's propositions were presented by Mr Ames of the S. R. A. in a much less able and succinct manner, and the Convention went into committee of the whole with closed doors. After a lengthy discussion the committee decided...
...products of large experience of men, great natural acuteness, patient reflection, and uncompromising self-criticism. Liberal to all mankind. Dr. Walker had far too strong a conviction for God's personal presence, a reverence for the Bible, a love for the Author of Christianity and his doctrine, to give any quarter to scepticism in theory or viciousness in practice. His argument forced you to go down to the roots of things, but placed you, when arrived, on a basis of rock; his appeals stirred your conscience to its depths, only to give new life to every better thought...
...spend more and obtain one which has some merit in it, than to throw away a sum of money on a poor one. Doubtless $1,200 or $1,500 would be quite a heavy tax upon the collegiate pocket, but for such an object no student would refuse to give $5, and two thirds of the class, by giving $10 or $15 apiece, would easily contribute enough money to purchase a window which could not be surpassed by that of any succeeding class. Here in America stained-glass windows can now be constructed as well as in England...
...vote of the Faculty may have been purposely worded in such a way as to leave that body the opportunity to prevent any entertainments which are out of the usual run. The next step for us to take is for some society that desires to give an exhibition to petition for leave to do so, so that we can discover what the further intentions of the Faculty really...
...also from the difficulty which most persons find in collecting their ideas when distracted by the continual and irrelevant chattering of one who stands almost directly at their side. If they have a thorough knowledge of the question before them, very few possess sufficient power of abstraction to give, when thus disturbed, a clear and succinct answer. Some of the details always escape them; and when they are assured that their rank for the year will depend mainly upon these written recitations, they cannot but feel that it is unjust to compel them to write under circumstances so unfavorable...