Word: holdings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...certain that in this century the theory of an evolutionary method of some sort in this universe has taken fast hold upon thinking men. Especially is this the case as to the life of man as man upon our planet. While a quiet evolution is easily seen in laws and political institutions, a more violent process is no less evident. So far the progress of man has been, far more than we could have wished, by catastrophies...
...whole subject of orators and oratory contains much of great importance to you all. As future voters of this country you should have interest in oratory. To be able to stand on your feet and hold your own, to object to a wrong, to advance a right; all these you must do. The great men whom I have known exerted an influence and you are now to succeed them. That generation has passed off the stage. You must take their place...
During Lent the Rev. George Hodges, Dean of the Episcopal Seminary, will hold Lenten Service every afternoon at 5.30, in St. John 's Memorial Chapel. The morning service on Ash Wednesday, March 3, will begin...
There could hardly be a greater contrast to Webster and Everett than Rufus Choate. He was of that great mysterious individuality which those old families of New England hold within themselves. His powers of language and of the use of the most familiar and unfamiliar words were unequalled. His hold on a jury was that of absolute magnetism. All this school of oratory was swept away by the advance of the antislavery movement and its champion Wendell Phillips. A single public meeting made him an outlaw for life. He felt he should not have been a platform speaker...
...unanimously voted to hold the dinner as near March 25 as possible; to empower the chair to appoint a committee of three who shall make all arrangements for the dinner; and to grant this committee the power to choose definitely the day on which the dinner shall be held. The meeting then adjourned...