Word: mouths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nothing would tend more fully to prove the wisdom and foresight of those who brought into active operation the Harvard school of veterinary medicine than the prevalence of the foot and mouth disease among cattle in this country. * * * For several years no serious thought has been turned to the complaints of animals, because no contagious disease has prevailed widely in this country. Now, however, the matter is a foremost topic. Educated men are called upon to deal with the crisis, and it is the Harvard school which will be looked to for educated veterinary surgeons. [Advertiser...
...next day an army of 30,000 men and the long coveted prize, Vicksburg, fell into the hands of Grant. Johnston was also driven away by Sherman. Four days later, Port Hudson, lower down the river, surrendered to General Banks. The Mississippi was then open from source to mouth, and the Confederacy...
...statement takes up the duties of the various officers and states them clearly. It ought to be remembered that the "directors are the mouth-piece of the members at large. They receive and act upon any suggestions, hear and investigate all complaints and in general constitute a means of communication between the members and the officers to whom the actual details of management are entrusted." Concerning such suggestions and complaints, a good deal might be said. It seems to be a prevalent idea that, whenever a member becomes a little dissatisfied with anything, he should immediately indite a ferocious communication...
...antagonist is our helper" is a phrase which Matthew Arnold has taken from the mouth of Burke and is fond of quoting. Harvard does not lack such helpers. Even her own sons have done her this service, not to mention such critics as Benjamin F. Butler and the redoubtable Dennis Kearney. The words of Phillips and Emerson in their Phi Beta Kappa orations were memorable and satutary in their way. Ex-Gov. Long, also one of her sons, has been recently indulging in criticism of the college. At the annual dinner of the Harvard alumni in Washington a few weeks...
Very few people in these days read Rabelais' writings, and Mr. Walter Besant, who has just published his "Readings from Rabelais," thinks "it is time that the wisest and kindliest of all Frenchman should at length cease to be regarded and spoken of as a buffoon with a foul mouth and mind." He aims to have this author, the contemporary of Luther, recognized, as Shakespeare and and Milton are, for what he is really worth, for his stout heart, his cheerfulness and his brave face. He follows Urqhart's translation, but does not hesitate to improve it whenever...