Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...scholarly anther of "Socrates" (1879) and "A Day in Athens with Socrates" (1883), both of which works have had a large sale, and have received very favorable notice from the critics and classical scholars both of this country and of Great Britain. These scholars have especially commended the power displayed in bringing Plato's meaning in plain, but remarkably pure English, a point in which they award the palm of excellence to this author, who is now known to be a Boston lady of high position, no less eminent for her generous support of works of practical benevolence, than...
Poor old Harvard! Princeton whitewashed her foot-ball team, and now the same team has been defeated by Yale by a score of 29 to 4. If this sort of thing keeps up, Harvard's eminence as an educational power will be gone and she will be obliged to hang several yards of crape on her front door. - Baltimore American...
...audience which completely filled Appleton Chapel greeted Mr. Moody last evening on the occasion of his address to the students. Mr. Moody spoke earnestly and with rare power illustrating his idea by pungent and interesting anecdotes which captivated his hearers. One very striking illustration will long be remembered by all who heard it. A farmer on one of the northern railroad lines witnessed a land-slide across the railroad track shortly before the time of an express train. It was in the evening. The man could not reach a telegraph station, and lighting a lantern, he started up the track...
...game all the way through, while last year's game resulted in a well-earned victory for Princeton. These two games, and the experience of every one at all skilled in foot-ball, teaches that the main thing is to go into a game with confidence in your power to win, and not to let that confidence get knocked...
...much pleasure for himself from his visit. He naturally noticed that the stock of honorary degrees conferred by Harvard was exhausted before Princeton was reached. It had occurred to him that among the Faculty of Princeton College were men worthy of the hightest distinction it was in Harvard's power to grant, and it was not pleasant to think they had been overlooked while degrees were simply scattered among the Faculties of other colleges. Dr. McCosh might have overlooked this apparent forgetfulness on the part of Harvard had not Dr. Holmes, as he imagined, furnished him fresh food for unpleasant...