Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...possess. The speaker cautioned his hearers to beware of turning the powers they did possess to base ends, but to devote them to the development of their characters. The music was fully up to its usual standard of excellence. The choir rendered the following selections: "The King of Love," by Dvkes; "I will Sing of Thy Power," by Sullivan, and Baraby's "Nunc Dimittis...
This action is another of the many illustrations of the enthusiastic love of Alma Mater that characterizes not only the undergraduates and recent graduates, but even those who were in Yale back...
...almost the entire work in the junior and senior years is elective, this change is one of great importance. The experience of the first term under the system is very encouraging, and the object of the faculty in making the changes-namely, to induce in the students a love of learning for its own sake and something more of a true scholarly spirit-bids fair to be accomplished...
...larger cities had associations for the promotion of special favorite exercises. Wrestling, javelin-throwing, running, leaping, pitching the quoit, riding, driving, climbing ropes, shooting the arrow, were all practiced by amateur clubs, each one devoted to its special form of games. The dominant passion with the Greeks was a love of beauty and harmony, to which they joined a joyous sense of well-being. It was under the inspiring sky of that country, and in the midst of living models formed by the games of the palaestra and the exercises of the gymnasium and the stadium that...
...anniversary of Dr. Gray's 75th birthday was celebrated Nov. 18, 1885, and the expressions of all of the botanists of America of love and esteem for their master indicated the high place which the followers of his chosen science accorded him. When Professor Gray first went to Cambridge the establishment was hardly more than a botanic garden in name, and did not include either herbarium library or other proper material for instruction or research. Professor Gray is a foreign member of the Royal Society, of London; he is a foreign member also of the Institute of France, being...