Word: graver
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...price and the university is not a shop for bartering and trading. The university is not an angle, but a circle touching every part of the world with doors in it for the various schools of learning. It is imperative that there should be some place where the graver questions of life may be studied apart from the multitudinous throng of every-day studies, and for that purpose this church was built. Learning, when free, rises to worship, and study, when untrammeled, soars to communion with God, and for this worship the door is wide open. As soon...
...this may seem a point of but little importance, and indeed, it would be, did it not involve a graver question, and one, too, that threatens to involve us in serious complications. We are in receipt of advices from eminent counsel informing us that a summons bearing the imprint of a seal which fails to meet the given description of the emblem of any corporation, is no otherwise than null and void. Already we have heard sundry freshmen announce their intention of disregarding in future all summonses which fail to meet the legal requirements. We print these few words...
...seems to us that in college athletics as in graver matters in life, the degree of excellence attained and the resulting benefit to the participants both depend largely on the stimulus afforded by wide opportunity for competition. We think it very undesirable to limit in any way, not entirely necessary, the scope of inter-collegiate contests in athletics, and, while approving of proper restrictions, earnestly deprecate the narrowing of the field which would result from the adoption of such a resolution by a comparatively small number of colleges. In consideration of the widely differing conditions of American colleges, absolute equality...
...work. Most of his writings were calm in language, and breathe a conservative spirit; they also evince a rather nervous preoccupation on the part of the writer as to what his readers will think of them. The words "Benevolent Public," "Potent Dispenser of Fame," etc., recur very frequently. The graver pieces are those in which he displays most force; in humorous passages his pen does not run with the same lightness as Selwyn's, Shadwell's, or Doyle's. The epitaph which he composed for himself would have conveyed but a faulty idea of his talents and character...