Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Birds and streamlets hail the spring-time, for his power has passed away...
...Lowell, of the Senior class, a prize of fifty dollars for a dissertation on "The Bank of England as a European Power between the death of Elizabeth and the death of Anne...
...ultimate government was in the hands of an elective body, holding their places for life. This body contained from twenty to thirty members. We are in the dark as to its powers. How it was elected we do not know, but from one authority we learn that it was elected by and composed of persons who seem to have been otherwise wholly unconnected with the town. The immediate government was vested in a Legislature of one chamber, which had also judicial power, elected in some unknown way, and responsible, not to the people, but to the higher body. The executive...
...grieve to say, a class of students at Harvard whose every act is a lie; and, hard as the duty is, it is the duty of every pure-minded man to hate them, to shake the dust of their rooms from his feet, and to use all his power to crush them out of existence...
...they sang out of tune, - to the great disgust of the "prominent gentlemen." The correspondent of the Courant expresses a wish that "prominent men" - which seems to mean students as distinguished from gentlemen - would set the fashion of attending the meetings which the "President has done all in his power to make attractive." If the President's attractive powers are fairly represented by his work on Metaphysics, it is hardly probable that this wish will be realized...