Word: iron
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...compelled to say, as an English divine had said before, "I bid you aspire" Seek better things. There are, however, three classifications of better things. The lowest - but one not to be despised - the personal success of rank and wealth. This is in the power of any who has iron enough in his nature to say, "I ought, I can, I will." Higher, is the service of one's country. One, who as a patriot can rank himself with that list, has not lived in vain. But highest is the ambition - neither personal or patriotic - to be a Christian...
Under the head of Harvard notes the Williams Fortnight has the following items: "Between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000 has been left the college by Jacob P. Jones, a retired Philadelphia iron merchant. - A chair of journalism has been established, and is to be filled by J. B. McCallagh, editor of the St. Louis Times-Democrat." Truly, these are not "chestnuts...
President McCosh of Princeton takes issue somewhat with this view of the case. He does not hold to the old idea of twenty years ago, which prescribed a cast-iron curriculum for the entire college course, to which all alike must conform without any latitude of choice. Neither does he believe that the average boy of 18 years is mature and discreet enough to be allowed to come and go as he pleases, or to select his own course of subjects at the very beginning of his term out of a great multitude presented to his uninformed judgment from which...
Between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000 has been left Harvard College, by Jacob P. Jones, a retired Philadelphia iron merchant.- Yale News...
...arranged and covers a great deal of ground. No detail is neglected. In the Naval Academy it is not sufficient to know how to act under ordinary circumstances. Every contingency must be foreseen and provided against. To secure this result, the machine shops provide means for practical work with iron and steel; a course in mechanical drawing renders unnecessary the assistance of draughtsmen...