Word: landed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...undiscovered land whose margin fades Forever and forever as we move...
...more and more fields now rule the world, is now again giving to universities greatly enlarged functions, new problems, and almost a new meaning to the very word 'university.' That this new situation will be duly appreciated by a fair proportion of the one thousand millionaires in our land, and by legislators as well as by those who have set their hearts and minds upon the progress of true science in our great and beloved republic in this time of unprecedented educational opportunity, I have not for a moment a shadow of doubt...
...When land and goods are gone and spent, Then learning is most excellent...
Juminous because of an indwelling and perennial truth to nature, because of that light which never was on land or sea, really more true, in the highest sense, than many a weary chronicle with names and date and place in which "an Amurath to Amurath succeeds" ? Do we know as much of any authentic Danish prince as of Hamlet? Have your ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest...
...great tribute to the importance of Harvard's chapel services that some of the most able, prominent and active ministers of the land are willing to lay aside their regular duties for a time and come, it may be hundreds of miles, to conduct them. It shows that they must consider the services to be of such a character as to have possibilities of great influence. It is all the more noticeable that ministers who are not graduates of any department of the University, who, indeed, have had no previous connection with the University, should be among those who give...