Word: laying
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...greatly misunderstood. While President Garfield was dying at Elberon, Mr. Wise went to Mr. Arthur's house to tell him of the President's condition. He was a man of great ability, with a thorough knowledge of the duties of this office. Grover Cleveland was a Democrat whose power lay in his conservatism. Whatever he did, he took the consequences for. Mr. Harrison, who was our next President, was a clear-minded, clever lawyer, but narrow and bigoted in religious matters. Mr. Wise first met William McKinley in Congress. His chief fault was his inability to free himself from...
...conception of educational processes, his inspirations, have made possible the development of Harvard College. And now, after having led the way these forty years, having overcome obstacles and prejudices that would have daunted the soul of one less hardy, having always pressed forward, the President is ready to lay down his work and pass along the responsibility to younger shoulders...
...practice for the University Football team continued secret yesterday afternoon, and consisted of the usual preliminary drill and a scrimmage between the substitutes and the second team, in which both teams scored. All the men who played in the Brown game were given a lay-off except Ver Wiebe, who was in the scrimmage for a few minutes. The work was fast and full of life, due in part to the colder weather...
...specific objects in view is to lay before them an idea of the work carried on by the various organizations which center in Brooks House and to present these activities in the proper light...
...shatter the old world," and in an "Epilogue" his spirit reels, "Drunk with a defiance stronger than the tyranny of death!" In Mr. Miller's "The Aged Poet's Soliloquy" a bard of seventy-five long years grieves that men shall never know the richer veins of gold that lay below the inmost marvel of his poet's heart. Mr. Dickerman in "Romance" is not quite so worldworn as the others, but even for him "The Rose Perhaps grows sweeter in these garden walks, Because of roses that bloomed long...