Word: potentates
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...believe, in consideration of the fact that compulsion defeats its object, that a system of optional chapel is the only true and potent means of securing a just recognition on the part of the student body of the claims of religion...
...melodrama pure and simple. It is a "tragedy of blood," and is a play in which action is the predominant feature. The plots and conspiracies; the play within a play; Hamlet's journey to England and return; the madness of Orphelia; all are full of action, and form a potent attraction for the popular mind. Throughout the play there is a bleak, cold humor, which never fails to amuse an audience. Hamlet himself is thoughtful and philosophic. With his friends he is pathetic, with his enemies bitterly humorous, and eloquent. He is an idealist in the strict sense...
...during these 27 years the Institute of Technology has been a potent factor in the development of the educational system of America; if it has led the world in the introduction of laboratory practice in general chemistry, in physics and in metallurgy; if it has done well by its great army of students; if it has opened successful careers to hundreds upon hundreds of young men; if it has contributed freely to the development of the industries of Massachusetts and of New England; if it stands today the largest, most complete school of its class anywhere to be found...
...long service in a single place begets duties to that place, duties strong if undefinable. And without disparaging other colleges, a Harvard man may fairly feel that there is something in his own university which renders it incomparable, potent over the future, compulsive of loyalty and of love...
...gratifying to note that the candidates for the different class elevens are already hard at work. The success of the series for the class championship in foot ball during the past two or three years has been a potent agency in arousing and sustaining the interest in foot ball. Any plan which brings more men into active participation in a sport is a good thing for that sport, a statement which is abundantly proved by the history of boating here since the opening of the Weld boat house. And this is why it is gratifying to see that the interest...