Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present today a complete and authentic account of the successful establishment of the School of Classical Studies at Athens. The institution is surely destined to play a prominent part in the learned world; it is intimately associated with Harvard, which is universally acknowledged to possess one of the finest Greek departments of any university, and where, perhaps, the tendencies are more inclined to the traditional English partiality for the classics than any other college in America...
...life. It must be maintained at all efforts, and it is really difficult to understand why its successful support should be for an instant even doubted of. Numberless schemes for improving the condition of the Dining Association have been offered. Some are worthless, others seemingly good, but the majority possess the salient objection of being impracticable. The faults usually found with the hall are generally without foundation. The price, considering all things, is moderate; the fare is very good, far superior to that offered at any house in Cambridge that furnishes four-dollar board at seven dollars a week...
...generally acknowledged among card players that few games possess the interest and advantage of "whist." Years ago whist clubs were among the most popular at college, but latterly they have either become insignificant, or have wholly disappeared. A few years ago an effort was made to organize a club, but with little success. It was proposed to have a regular club-room, with the proverbial tea served to players, and in short it was to be fashioned after the manner of the whist clubs so famous in London during the past century. The latter scheme was soon recognized as impracticable...
...poem which is to be produced, so the servant stylograph contains within itself the hidden reservoir from which, at his will, ink sufficient for the writing will flow. Then, again, the stylograph is destined to play an important part in history. Think of the value that fortunate pen would possess which, after having in the hands of some future President, signed the treaty for the annexation of Canada, should be preserved for long ages, perchance yet containing the original ink. Demosthenes is said to have committed suicide by taking poison which he carried...
...Globe has been drawing large houses to one of the weakest performances we have ever witnessed. The same performance will be given during the coming week. It is thoroughly stupid and, while the Hanlons are clever acrobats, the piece, "Le Voyage en Suisse," does not possess the least merit...