Word: omnia
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ever had before, even considering the crippled state of our team. But whatever way be the issue, we may all be sure that every man on the eleven will enter into this last championship game with the determination to do his best and to win if possible. Labor vincit omnia, is an old proverb and we do not think that Yale is so far advanced as not to be included in the omnia of this world. At least we will hope so on this occasion...
...upon his desk a tray with decanter of water, tea-spoon, goblet and three lumps (never more) of sugar. The College de France, founded by Francis I. in 1530, was entirely rebuilt at different times between 1611 and 1774, and extended in 1831. Over the entrance the inscription, "Docet Omnia," indicates that its sphere embraces every branch of science and literature. The lectures being of a popular character are open gratis to the public, ladies included...
...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...
...door to table the lustre-lacking eye, the half-closed mouth, the colorless cheek, the indifferent greeting with a sideward duck of the head, are undoubtedly considered the accurate external indications of a mind and body which have probed life's complexity, a mind which has said : "Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas;" a body which has answered : "Very true, it is 'the thing' to live and move and have our being, however, we must put up with...
...large salaries. The crest of this new society is the picture of a goody with broom and duster in her hand getting ready to sweep, which, it will be observed, is true to nature - that being as far as she ever gets. Beneath will be the Latin motto, "Labor omnia vincit...