Word: lay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...deepest study can a man learn and apply the proper expression of emotion. Even Wendell Phillips would pace his room the night before the delivery of an oration, reading over his manuscript for practice; and on this manuscript could be seen the marks he had made, showing where to lay his accents and where to make his gestures. Surely, none of you can hopes to acquire his power at a less cost. Edwin Booth is a profound student. You can take no shorter path to his goal than he took. Gestures are a world of expression in themselves, and consist...
Wanted. A Lay Reder at Christs Church. He must be a Communicant in the Episcopal Church. One who can sing (tenor or baritone) especially desired, that he may also assist in the choir, The rector may be consulted further in reference to the position, after any service at the church, or on week-days at the Rectory (13 Follen St.- between 1 and 2 p.m. James F. Spalding...
First, then, it is hard to realize, although history clearly tells of it, how definite, and limited, and special, was the foundation of Harvard College. It lay like a weird ball of light in the intention of its founders. It had no relations with any region of human life except its own. To make ministers of a certain faith and of a certain order, that faith conceived of as the final expression of the truth of God; that order accepted as the appointed means for men's salvation to create certain types of experience, to protect an acknowledged system...
...marched in order and decorum, and presented a fine appearance. The marshals led the procession on horseback, then followed the large body of the senior class, and then, on a dray, a special feature, very well gotten up, representing "Johnnie Harvard's Pa's." The basis for this display lay in the fact that the revered founder of our university boasted of three fathers - one bona fide father and two step-fathers; a butcher, a grocer and a cooper. In the centre of the dray, was seated our statue on the Delta, clad in the exact ancient vestments; the chair...
...first of this century, and consisted of the thirty laziest men in the class, of which the most supremely lazy was high admiral. About a dozen men dressed as sailors kept the memory of the club alive, and Mr. J. B. Blake '87, dressed in Admiral's uniform, lay on a red divan on a dray, - the laziest of the sluggards...