Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...smaller colleges of America, due to local, sectional, sectarian and pecuniary reasons. These small colleges, he says, although poorly equipped in laboratories and libraries, are usually strongly supported by a small, enthusiastic body of alumni. "'Tis a small college, your Honor," said Webster in the Dartmouth trial, "but we love her!" This sentiment and these men Mr. Shaler would attract to Harvard, by offering scholarships or presentations to be controlled by the faculty of the smaller college, and awarded to deserving graduates. The university could never, and should never, he says, seek to control the smaller college, for the independence...
...ball was to be followed fifteen days after by a game, and during the two weeks after the first game by two others; and knowing that, under the rule compelling amateurs to have severed their connections for one month previous with all other clubs than their last love before playing in a match game, the Harvard team would be weakened by the loss of several of its members who were playing on various amateur nines, the Lowell Club challenged Harvard for the ball in the middle of August, although they had been notified that Harvard would be unable to play...
...Love" gives its title to a second sonnet, of which the music is rythmic and the rythm melodious, but the wording is stale, flat and unprofitable, and again a subject is only new when expressed in fresh language and a genuine appreciation...
...ready at all times to aid the man who is searching for the light, and there is nothing which will bring two persons together sooner and bind them firmer than having this one object in common. At the close of the address the choir sang the "King of Love My Shepherd Is," by Shelley...
August 29: My pupills all came to me ys day to desire vy might ceas learning Hebrew; I withstood it with all ye reaso I could, yet all will not satisfy ym. Thus am I requited for my love; & thus little fruit of all my prayers bears for yr good...