Word: hand
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Chelsea Public thinks the IT H guilty of unpardonable impudence in not leaving the modern Pompeii, cap in hand, with obsequious thanks for the well-meant castigation inflicted upon it by the Public. It particularly resents a recent article in the Advocate which dared to question the Public's critical taste, and is somehow reminded of the story of "Elijah" and the Bears. In the Bible, as translated for Chelsea, the name of the bear-compeller may be that mentioned in the Public, but King James's version (used in all English-speaking countries) gives ELISHA as the prophet...
...hand grasped a new five-cent blank-book which he nervously pressed to his side...
...glad to announce that the Executive Committee of the Harvard Boat Club will soon publish a small hand-book, illustrative of the style of rowing now in vogue at Harvard. It is to be issued in pamphlet form, after the manner of a similar work printed at Oxford, England, some ten years...
...short, it seems evident that the tone of the college is not what it should be. Broader principles of education must be developed, and men induced, by a feeling of personal responsibility and free choice, to take in hand the guidance of their own fortunes, and begin to think for themselves. Then only will this College turn out men of well-balanced minds, capable of filling the high positions which should be theirs by right of social and educational advantages...
Scatter your gold with lavish hand...