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Word: mottoes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...under obligations to the editor, Helen Wilman, for a copy of "The Woman's World," published at Chicago and bearing the startling motto of "Give us Liberty or Death" The paper contains interesting articles from Shakespeare, Milton, Plato and other reputable contributors, closing with a short but touching appeal, as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/6/1883 | See Source »

Accompanying a cut of a very astonishing figure of Father Time with his scythe and an animated clothes-dummy, the Athen&aeum appends this motto - "Western Granger to Snodkins of Harvard: 'So you be a collidge man. Wal, collidge was the makin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 10/2/1882 | See Source »

...motto go forth to all the colleges, "Poor little Bee, their is room enough in the world for you and me." Never give up the valuable virtues for muddled fuddled stultified fabulous pandomoniums. Try is the lever that moves the life and matter of the world. Mark the march of evolution the last six thousand years ever since the days of Adam and Eve playing behind an apple tree sowing leaves together to make an apron or the dens and caves in the earth for a habitation. The future of the past eclipsed by humanity to man the heaven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "MULTUM IN PARVO." | 5/8/1882 | See Source »

...pathetic motto of the Harvard Lyceum (1810 and 1811) is taken from Crabbe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EARLIER HARVARD JOURNALISM. | 4/18/1882 | See Source »

...reprint from the N. Y. Times an interesting and somewhat curious article on our Memorial Hall and its management - interesting as showing the opinions held by outsiders on the matter, and curious for the various misconceptions and exaggeration it contains. De gustibus non disputandum is a motto eminently applicable in this case; but yet it must be acknowledged that the article contains much truth, if sometimes too severely expressed. If it is a fact, as the writer states, that the poor quality of food at Memorial drives many to solace themselves at drug-stores, etc., it might, after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/22/1882 | See Source »

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