Word: placing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...applause was frequent and hearty, and given with wonderful discrimination, considering the number of gamins up stairs, and their well-known fondness for applauding in the wrong place. Mr. Booth received the compliment of a call before the curtain, and the members of the company were not forgotten...
These races have taken place so early in the autumn, - there being at least six more rowing weeks before cold weather sets in, - that, apparently, there can be no objection to some more sport of the same kind before the season closes...
...with the Harvards at the bat. A. W. Perry, Harvard, '76, was chosen umpire, but was obliged to retire after the first inning, to prevent the strong wind permanently affecting his eyes, injured in a game a few weeks previous. Wm. Mason, Harvard, '76, was chosen to fill his place...
...here. I refer to the arrangement of a class of preliminary studies especially adapted to the preparation of the young men to take an efficient part in the treatment of difficult questions connected with the management of public affairs." For granted, what is so often urged, that to obtain place one must generally blunt all nice sensibility, indeed, must lose much of his spirit of independence, by sacrificing honest convictions to the demands of party; granted that the populace often prefer a superficial pretender (without capacity, acquirement, or character, and possessing only sagacity in pandering to the inclination...
...consist the training for public life, which our universities do not now furnish, but which would aid young men, animated by an ardent wish, to have an honorable part in the determination of great questions of law, government, and social science, and not incapacitated by an inordinate longing for place? "The preparation for action which I should desire would have in view chiefly two fields of usefulness to the nation. . . . . One of these is in the direction of the periodical press; the other is that of public speaking with effect...