Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fine line of portieres are shown at remarkably low prices. Some German art pictures framed in gilt, 20x15, are but $1.50, at Power's, 30 Boylston street...
...oration by Frederic R. Coudert, was the next thing on the programme. He said that Columbia was founded at the time of the French Revolution. Among the truths that have appeared since then the most important is that not knowledge but the art of using knowledge is power. Art is taught by faith. The university of the future is that which teaches nothing that is useless and everything that is good its duty is to elevate the standard of all professions, and to make men good citizens. The classics are indispensable studies. Mr. Coudert concluded with a spirited sketch...
...fine line of portieres are shown at remarkably low prices. Some German art pictures framed in gilt, 20x15, are but $1.50, at Power's, 30 Boylston street...
...fine line of portieres are shown at remarkably low prices. Some German art pictures framed in gilt, 20x15, are but $1.50, at Power's, 30 Boylston street...
...lecture-rooms, no colleges of any kind; these, together with a fixed tuition fee, are later improvements to universities. The students paid their tuition fees to the professors, and absolutely forebade any "cutting" on their part without previous permission from the rector of the students. The students had the power to compel townsmen to let buildings to them at terms fixed by students and townsmen. This blessing is great, but greater still from the "sign-ragging" standpoint. Students were judged by the university court...