Word: givees
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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With gratification I remember that my preparatory years were devoted exclusively to the study of the Classics. Kuhner and Harkness were my constant companions; and in the light of their wisdom my love for the ancients found being and growth. It gives me pleasure to recall the fact, that at my admission examination, though I located Manilla on the coast of Mexico and Mt. Shasta in Hindostan, I was able to give correctly the location of the Bosporani and the Cyziceni...
...Give us nor gold nor precious stones...
BASE-BALL, Cricket, and Boating give amusement and exercise to many; still there are others, not especially expert at these, who would be glad to enter into out-door sports where skill and muscle could be shown...
...born; that it is as impossible to express by a single word or sentence the religious characteristics of all the members of a great college as of all the people of Massachusetts; that there are men enough here, from most denominations, who live lives consistent with their principles, to give character to an ordinary sectarian "University"; that not a few leave college, as they entered it, with a firm belief in total depravity and the atonement;-must we not in candor admit that those who escape are exceptions to the rule, resist the tendency of the place? Such sophistry needs...
...accomplish all this, the Society has been at an expense of between four and five hundred dollars, more than half of which was subscribed at the meeting at which the change was decided upon, and the balance was forthcoming in so generous a manner as to give the strongest evidence of the growing interest felt for the society. So much for what has been done. It is in the future, however, that the Sophomores look for the best fruit of their labors, and are anxious that the spirit of progress, inaugurated by them, should find some worthy champions in those...