Word: moment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...today. Hodges and Robinson who would have been on one of the Senior crews, and Burnham who would have rowed with the Intermediate eight have been called away for service in the militia. Pierce, Stoddard, Brittin and Bancroft have already enlisted and may be obliged to leave at any moment. There will be two Senior crews for a time, as the coaches were unable to make a selection of one only with justice to the men. The Weld Freshman crew will constitute the Junior crew...
...delicate subject is treated strongly and sensible in "From Either Side." "Of Passing Moment" is a a dry little sketch of a typical college goody. "Tomasso's Triumph" over his own hot Italian blood is bright and fluent. A new field has been opened by the author of "An Unclean Hand of Providence," who describes an incident on the "long, low whalebacks (the lake men call them 'pigs')" which ply the Great Lakes...
Meanwhile, as a preliminary step, we would suggest that the matter be brought, at the earliest practicable moment, before the Corporation of the University, with a request that it give the project serious consideration; and if, in the judgment of its members, it is expedient, that they will assign a suitable site for the building of the proposed club within the limits of the College Yard, if possible, in case the necessary funds for its construction should within a reasonable time be forthcoming...
...assembled to discuss a question of great moment to the human race. The social question is puzzling the minds of statesmen all over the world. I do not come here claiming to have found a solution for these problems, but to suggest a light that shall show the way out. Every where the growth of Christianity has been a steady progress toward freedom. The essential beauty of civilization is charity. Freedom is the essential thing of civilization. Now freedom has brought no more substantial result than the substitution of free labor for slave. Nevertheless the industrial system based upon freedom...
...Winsor entered the service of the University at a moment which for this Faculty as then constituted was both critical and fortunate. The Faculty had entered upon the systematic development of their instruction, elementary and advanced, both by enlarging its range and improving its methods, and upon their success in a great and difficult undertaking depended the future rank of Harvard as a seat of learning. At this juncture Mr. Winsor took charge of the Library with the settled purpose of making it a help and a spur to instructors and to students in their daily work, and a source...