Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...leaders of its first church, - Cotton of Lincolnshire, bringing here the saintly memories of Botolph's town, and Wilson, the earliest of the Boston ministers? How much would our own college history have lost had we been without Dunster and Chauncy, our earliest presidents? And what did the saintly grace of the great Apostle to the Indians, John Eliot, give to our Massachusetts history, for without him we should have lost that singular example of a man who may be said to have created a language, certainly in its literary form, of which the monument of his patience and erudition...
...vividness. There came a sudden clatter of mounted police, then a snarling of antique trumpets, and Lo! the hands on the dial of time swept suddenly back, all the harsh realism of the nineteenth century vanished, and the age of romance was with us once more. The year of grace, 1386, is drawing toward a close, and his Royal Highness, Ruprecht I, is celebrating the founding of his new university by a grand procession through the streets of Heidelberg. Here comes the herald, clad in velvet, and bearing aloft the yellow banner and black eagles of the Prince. Then follow...
...hoped that the proverbial spirit of indifference, which by some calumniators is said to prevade the minds of Harvard men will not become so far triumphant that a large number of its devotees will ask to burden the very parent and nourisher of it, - Harvard herself - by using the grace of the college authorities as a means to create a nice little vacation, to be spent in some other quarter of the globe than Cambridge. It would seem hardly necessary to say that every undergraduate should consider it his duty to add zest to the coming reunion at least...
...poem "Ever So Long Ago," lately published by the Lampoon has been set to music by Miss Grace Jordan. The composer has sent a copy of her work to the Lampoon office...
This mark of temper on the part of Yale is very discouraging. We had been led to believe that she would now take such occurrences as that of Saturday with good grace, and not attempt a slur upon the officers of the Mott Haven games, and we are sorry that we could be so mistaken. The charge made that the 100 yards dash was decided by but one of the three judges, is preposterous. To say that, in as close and exciting a contest as the one in question was, two of the judges were "not looking," must surely seem...