Word: impressively
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...perfect an organization to counteract in some degree the so-called "influence" of the large societies in the election of class-day officers. While I by no means wish to imply that the present state of affairs demands such concerted action, I wish through your columns to impress on non-society men the importance of a full attendance at the election. This not only would tend to remove the idea that has become gradually fixed in the past, that the large absence of non-society men shows their hopelessness in contending against what has been already settled, but would...
...will give a course of four lectures in Boylston Hall illustrated by lantern slides on the Historical Sites and Monuments of England and France. These lectures will be given on the remaining Monday evenings of May, beginning May 11, at 7.45 P.M. The object of these lectures is to impress on the mind of the student the prominent facts of early English History by exhibiting photographs of remarkable sites and monuments as they now appear. The lectures are open without tickets to all members of the university...
...system, with the introduction of German into the required work of freshman and sophomore years, has been arranged thoroughly in accordance with the progressive movement of modern educators toward a more liberal course of study. At the same time Yale intends to require enough of classics to thoroughly impress each of her students with the value of such training...
...first principles of independence of action. The lesson to be learned in this case is, that if you buy a rope about 150 feet long, and fasten it to the staple, you might escape, provided the rope did not burn before you reached the ground." What we wish to impress on everybody is, that if he neglects to obtain a rope after the generous advance of a staple, his blood is on his own head, in case of fire, and the college will refuse to pay damages...
...program is carried out. Music and speeches are indulged in. The trees are selected with great care that the chances of dying may be small, and when they are planted are named or friend. The idea of such a general tree planting is peculiar, but it is done to impress the young that they have a duty to perform in beautifying their surroundings in life and to give them a taste for the delights of nature...