Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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GLOBE THEATRE.-Mr. Charles Coghlan in "The Duke's Motto." Performance...
GLOBE THEATRE. - Mr. Charles Coghlan in "The Duke's Motto." Performance...
...with Butler's chances at the polls, or with his popularity as a demagogue. Their duty is simply to see that the university suffers no damage as an institution of learning and a teacher of morals. It is dedicated to "Christo et Ecclesiae," and has "Veritas" for the motto on its coat-of-arms; and what has Butler to do with Christ and His Church or with "Truth?" If it discovers that in giving a degree to a particular person the college will impair its moral standing and lower the value of its diplomas with all respectable and thoughtful...
When Bates College was established Charles Sumner gave as its motto, "Studio ac amore." The class of '84 has given expression to its warm feeling for the memory of the deceased statesman by the purchase of Powers' statue, which has been presented to the college, and was unveiled last Friday evening with appropriate public exercises...
...prophetically paid us. Lord Bacon, as you all know, says: 'Eating makes the full man, drinking the ready man, but to have been educated at Yale College, a wise man.' Now, at Cambridge, they attempt the impossible. At Yale they aim at and achieve all that is possible. The motto of Cambridge rejects the common sense of the classic maxim and pretends that omnia possumus omnes - that we can be scholars, and learned and wise and witty, and be oarsmen and runners and blacksmiths, and all that sort of thing...