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...
...used to rouse the enthusiasm and stimulate the nobler aspirations of those who were young in the first half of this century. How many causes have wrought this change any one can tell who breathes the commercial air of America. But there are still among us men in whose power it lies to stir our sluggish blood, to broaden our ever-narrowing field of higher enjoyment and to lead us into the sanctuaries of our literature. Is it then asking too much if we request that Mr. James Russell Lowell, an emeritus professor of Harvard, make his influence felt among...
...prove the little interest in it, though there is, I think, deep interest below the surface of all the stumbling-blocks that impede its supporters. The most serious is, as I pointed out in a previous letter, the absence of any special reason strong enough to supply motive power to keep the club going. Though there are half a hundred reasons for desiring the club, no one of them is sufficiently important to become the one prominent motive for it, and as they all, as it were, pull different ways the reasons neutralize each other and matters remain in statu...
...University Club, reading-room, smoking-room, place of rendezvous and restaurant, if you will and can; but also turn it to some more solid account by making it a place where matters of college interest may be discussed: a not only talked about, uselessly and with no power of direct result, but in such manner that the opinions prevailing have some concrete effect easiest obtained by giving the debaters votes. Quod bene vertat...
...playing rules of the College League were not touched upon by the delegates, as that power lies exclusively with the Judiciary Committee, which will hold its first meeting early in April. It is understood, however, that six balls instead of seven will be all allowed to a pitcher, while the rules on balks will be made more stringent by inflicting heavier penalties for the violation of them. The question of coaching did not come up for discussion...