Word: leaded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This is a most important and weighty statement; and it is a very true one. The more students in our American colleges attach themselves to courses of study which will lead them in practical work in after life, the better for them. Courses in French, English Literature and Fine Arts make good conversationalists; but they help one but little in the stern realities of a legal or business career. Men ought to think previously how they are drifting, before they make their election of courses; for they frequently lose all track of their previous education, their previous convictions, and their...
...public is to be held in King's Chapel, beginning Feb. 6. They will be conducted by some of the later graduates of the Harvard Divinity School, who are banded together under the name of "The Cambridge Brotherhood." Mr. J. B. Sharland is now drilling a choir to lead in the congregational singing. The addresses will be direct appeals in the interests of a better, a purer life, and will be absolutely free from doctrinal teachings. - Cambridge Chronicle...
...gentleman, not necessarily the man of cultured manners and versed in the nicer requirements of social life, but the man who has the spirit of reverence for what is good of kindness towards others, of gentleness and self sacrifice and honor and truth The peculiarities of our social life lead to a certain boyishness of manner, but I do not for one moment doubt that the tendency of our life here is toward true gentlemanliness...
...that Tennyson has neither changed nor fallen into the hopeless and pessimistic ideas of old age, as so many have lately said, in his "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After," but that he has really come to a more perfect and real understanding of the life he has had to lead. In the Locksley Hall," there was the life and aspirations of a young and romantic poet disregarding the trials of daily life and looking forward into the future, made bright by an optimistic vision. In the "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After" it is the man lost, disregarding the existing incompleteness...
...outlook for a strong base-ball team at Yale this season is far from promising. In fact, a scrutiny of the men who presented themselves last Saturday as candidates for the University nine, and a careful consideration of their known abilities, lead directly to the conclusion that Yale is short of good base-ball material. Compared with the college standard, there are only two first-class all round players - Stagg, '88, pitcher, and Cross, T.S., third base. The others can hardly be rated better than from medium to fairly good. The third best all round man is Noyes, '89 (short...