Word: power
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...water. The lesson that this fire should teach the Corporation is very evident. Although they are willing to run the risk of financial loss from fire, they are bound to consider the number of lives that they are responsible for; they are bound to do all in their power to prevent such a calamity as the burning up of twenty or thirty students, which is not only possible, but very probable, under the existing system...
Perchance some superhuman power...
...more than half the graduates in every class go into business, and that the others have more or less to do with money matters, shows that, although the practical may be unduly set aside here, it will force itself to the front in after life. The University has the power to combine both; and the time has come for it to give the experiment a fair trial. Hitherto it has disregarded the aims of a large number of its students; now it may well take these into consideration in laying out the course to be adopted in the future...
...quarter-mile run, Messrs. W. A. Blodgett, '81, G. C. Buell, '82, E. L. Underwood, '82, and T. H. Simmons, '80, started. By his magnificent stride and staying power, Simmons easily won in 54 3/4 s., - remarkable time, considering the strong wind. Underwood was second...
...loathe the wretched power of song...