Word: prevails
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...think there is. The hour examinations are too valuable to be given up, but why should they not be so arranged as to secure us from having more than two in one week, or if that should be impossible, why should not recitations be suspended while the examinations prevail...
...young nor old shall e'er prevail its honors to destroy...
...have been requested by the officers of the College Telegraph Company to correct an erroneous impression which seems to prevail among the lower classes respecting this company. As its roll of membership is at present entirely made up (with one exception) of Juniors, the report has been circulated and generally believed among the lower classes, that the company has become a class affair...
...statement might seem to contain fit replies in themselves. My purpose is only to confess myself a believer in sentiment, and to give a few reasons for clinging to something which has at least the approval of some former times, and which, I had thought, was beginning to prevail in our own. Indeed, it is for this reason that I have never before obtruded upon you my opinions in regard to this subject. But if a confession of sentiment is to be considered a confession of folly, why then it behooves every true lover of sentiment boldly to acknowledge himself...
...alluded to in the speeches of the evening, of the perfect friendship and good-will which have existed between the two papers during the past year, and to express the hope, the fulfilment of which we see no reason to doubt, that the same harmony and good feeling may prevail in the future...