Word: goode
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Samuel Eliot then alluded to the fact that when Colonel Sever was in college he was only saved from being "rusticated" by the interference of the President, and thus the Sever bequest was insured. He recommended the matter to President Eliot as a good result of easy discipline. Turning to Governor Rice, he said, "I shall enter upon no encomium to Massachusetts. Here she stands, and here she sits...
...only remains for us who linger a little longer to remember affectionately those who are gone before, to thank God for sparing our own lives, and to resolve to continue doing whatever it may still be in our power to do, for the honor of our class, for the good of our fellow-man, and for the prosperity and welfare of our beloved Alma Mater. Let us hope that we may never be counted among her unworthy or ungrateful children...
...year does not seem to warrant the discouraging article in the Advocate." There are persons who always look upon the gloomy side of every question, no matter how cheerful the other side may be. There are others who are deeply grieved because the world is not grateful for their good services. Both of these classes of people we pity; we cannot sympathize with them...
...wanted to, I might have kept secret a good many things I learned in England. They tried down at Cambridge to build an eight at Blakie's shop, but Blakie was not equal to the job, and his boat cracked from stem to stern while the crew was in practice. I might have kept the secret in New Haven if I wished, as Keart could have built us, and can build, a good cedar eight. But what is the use of being selfish? What I have done has improved boating, and I am glad...
...successful competitors, or the wishes of the gentlemen who acted as judges to do their best in a very difficult and, to some of them apparently, a novel position. But it does seem to us that power to sway an audience is one of the chief requisites of good speaking, and it is surely strange that neither of the three speakers whom the audience would have placed as high, if not higher, than any others, was mentioned in the award. Either there are certain arbitrary requirements, unknown to all but the judges themselves, or else they were unfitted for their...