Word: manner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conceived, more definitely limited, than that New England Puritanism. The great world of humanity lay around it unfelt, unregarded. The secular world was absorbed, was ignored or denounced. Like a rock in a great sea, rising upon its own foundations, beaten upon by waves of which it took no manner of account. So stands the Puritanism of the seventeenth century; so Harvard College which it built in the midst of the multifarious and restless history...
...wisest, no one can doubt who was present and listened to the speakers. Mr. Hamilton's oration was masterly in conception, brilliant in execution, and extremely dignified and impressive in delivery. His bearing and intonation gave abundant testimony to the fact that elocution is taught in an admirable manner at Harvard. We can assure Mr. Hamilton that every one of his listeners was at once impressed and moved by his oration...
...called up many memories. On this very spot and in a church of the same name, Ruprecht I five hundred years before dedicated the university to religion and knowledge. The building was filled to the last man possible. The oration was a masterly production, and was delivered in a manner befitting the great occasion. Like all Germans, Doctor Fisher is nothing if not exhaustive; and in the course of the two hours and a half that he occupied. he succeeded in exhausting, not only his subject but his entire audience. The Grand Duke and the Duchess, indeed, preserved an admirable...
...managed to win a game; but they apparently have no "sand" left after this one game. They found that foot-ball meant work, and so they have stopped playing foot-ball entirely. For a week they have done nothing except come out on the field in a leisurely manner, look round a little while, and then go in again, perfectly satisfied with themselves. They ought to play every afternoon from three to four, against themselves, and then a picked eleven or fifteen ought to play the university from quarter of five to five. Yale does not loaf in any such...
...paddling race for single canoes has been added to the list of entries, provided four men enter. Entries must be made in the same manner as in the other races. All entries close November...