Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that nearly all its engagements have been fulfilled, the club might well give the college the benefit of its practice and thus earn the thanks of all. The same remark will apply equally well to the Freshman Glee and Banjo Clubs which have hardly done all in their power to make the evenings enjoyable. The Eighty-nine Glee Club sang very often in the yard and its example was followed by Ninety to some extent. We do not expect the custom violated by Ninety one. The 'Varsity Glee Club have already given a number of concerts in the yard...
...same States or sections of the country closer together in their relations with one another by the formation of undergraduate clubs, which, while they serve as a social bond of union between the men in college, also stand ready to lend any assistance or give any advice in their power to men who expect to enter Princeton from the districts which they represent...
...Brooks occupied the chapel last evening. His sermon treated of the discontents and mistakes of the misunderstood man and the means of escape from discontent which lie within the power of such a man. Mr. G. Frank Monroe, the tenor, was the soloist. Dr. Brooks will conduct prayers during the week...
...Resolved, That we, the students of Yale University, do earnestly petition the Corporation to use the means in their power to prevent the erection of this building on the site proposed; and, be it further...
...last the interest of the reader, and is entirely free from that looseness so common in short stories which allows him to see the end when he has scarcely begun. The bits of description are delicate, and the treatment is, in the main, original. The writer shows power of observation particularly in the character of May Vernon. One who is familiar with a country church and its ways will be keenly interested in the story of "The Reverend Ambrose Wilson." The plot is less worthy than the treatment, and were it not for an unsuspected turn at the end, would...