Word: omit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...challenge has been sent by Cornell to the U. of P. for an eight-oared race, to take place at some place to be mutually agreed upon. It is thought probable that Pennsylvania will accept this challenge and omit the customary race with Yale...
...writer then mentions at length the social life of the students in the towns, there being very little opportunity for good society save in the families of the professors. "I must not omit one important social factor. Seven miles distant, across the valley, in Northampton, is Smith College, one of the leading woman's colleges in the East, nad a factor not to be ignored in any problem that concerns Amherst. Very few men go through collge without making their bow at Smith at least once, and about a fifth call there frequently. A reception in the winter, a concert...
...made speeches in the great pavilion, which resounded for three or four hours with the eloquence of Quincy and Everett and Shaw and Story and Saltonstall and Sprague and Daniel Webster, [applause] whose presence alone was enough to give dignity and grandeur to any occasion. Nor must I omit to allude to the fact that among those speakers was that accomplished and eminent scholar and orator, Hugh Wesley Green, who, only six years later died at the home of his friend, George Pickering, of Boston, having visited Boston as secretary of state of the United States...
...personal requirements, we should be more certain of attaining our end here than we are by the manner in which many of us now map out our work. The results of our elective system are, as we all know, even far beyond expectation, but we should not omit to guard against the evils which it, in common with every good thing, may bring with it a little conservative spirit, may fitly be preached to the liberalism and freedom...
...accomplish this object, one change among others seems necessary in this service - to omit all extemporaneous prayer. If the student goes to pray, he must not be exposed to the caprices of any individual; he must not be waiting to hear what he is to pray for; he must be borne along by a familiar service which gives utterance to the primary, daily needs of every man. References to passing events may serve to attract attention - if made eloquently they may move, if made blunderingly they may amuse or disgust - but the office of daily prayers is to bring...