Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spectacle yesterday that is a somewhat unusual one here ; the spectacle of a number of stalwart upper-class men from Brown seizing a solitary freshman, breaking his cane, and then going on their way rejoicing. It was significant as marking the peculiar views a Brown student seems to possess in regard to the dignity of the upper classes. Really, it was a ridiculous scene, and one quite unworthy of men who are students of any college at the present time...
...abilities of their representative eight. It is a significant fact that the confidence of the freshmen has led them into the startling belief that eventually they will be able to constitute a university crew in themselves. This remarkable exhibition of assurance would never be indulged in did the university possess a quarter of the ambition and interest that has been a noble characteristic of the crew. Harvard enjoyed a peculiarly easy victory last year ; from present appearances it is evident that in the coming race it will have the further satisfaction of a walk-over...
...spirit of negligence or indifference. These we would urge to sign at once, as only about half the required number of names has been obtained, and every man who can go should hesitate no longer in putting down his name. Surely there are fifty men in the class who possess sufficient class feeling to make the question of a dinner no longer a matter of doubt...
...will be generally admitted, we suppose, that America has not as yet a distinctively literary class such as England and France possess. But that she has a number of men-of-letters will hardly be denied even by those who refuse to admit that there is a literature which can be characterized as peculiarly American. The relative merits of this body of men-of-letters as compared with a similar body of English or French writers is a question that we can hardly be expected to discuss. A correspondent of the Critic asks why America should not have an institution...
...likely, therefore, to grant medical degrees to women until it teaches medicine to women. At present the corporation do not possess, and are not offered, the means of training women in medicine...