Word: pathway
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...What a reward is Washington's! What an influence is his and will be! One mind and will transfused by sympathetic instruction into milions; one character a standard for millions; one life a pattern for all public men teaching what greatness is and what the pathway to undying fame...
...spirit of grumbling inherent in human nature must find place in some other grievance. The most evident evils now are the pools and running water which collect at the western entrance of the yard. Cannot these streams be bridged over or induced to find some other channel than the pathway of instructors and students...
...visitor approaches it is very imposing. When the party of which I was one visited College Hill, the snow on the hill gave it a very pleasing appearance. This modern acropolis rises sheer from the plain which surrounds it, and overlooks Cambridge and Somerville. We climbed the steep pathway to the Chapel, but on reaching the top of the hill were met by two men in athletic dress running at the top of their speed, and followed by a little man in whiskers who was crying "Hou, Hou!" A little further on we came to the Museum. The Museum...
Webster's advantages of early education were exceedingly slender, for he worked on his father's farm in summer and went to school only in winter. The principal district school that he attended was three miles from his home and his pathway there was often through deep snows. When fourteen years old he spent a few months at Phillips academy, Exeter, under the bunion of Dr. Benjamin Abbot. He mastered the principles and philosophy of the English grammar in less than four months, when he immediately commenced the study of the Latin language, and his first lessons in that study...
...some what prophetic of his future. His English translation of the dialogue gives the following as the reply with which he concluded: "You may both despise my profession, but I will yet pursue it. Demosthenes and Pericles, examples of former days, will be like stars to point out the pathway to glory, and their glory will always be the object of my desire...