Word: prime
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...known as the Phillips Exeter Club. As its name indicated, the club was composed of Exeter men at Harvard. Phillips Exeter Academy has long been known as a Harvard preparatory school. Every year she sends nearly two-thirds of her graduating class to Harvard; and for this reason the prime object of such a club here needs no explanation. Even Yale, with half as many Exeter men as Harvard, has an Exeter Club. This is manifestly an anomalous state of affairs, and steps should be taken to re-organize this club at Harvard, since, as the CRIMSON showed not long...
...details, we can only suggest a few things. In the first place the point of prime importance should be to make the fund general; the size of it will take care of itself, but every man should have a chance to give with the assurance that no matter how small his gift may be it is welcome. Indeed the men who can give the least are likely to be most anxious to give, for to them Mr. Bolles gave most. Unless we are very much mistaken, enough money would readily be subscribed to found a scholarship, to be named after...
...Bourget is in the prime of life, and never before yesterday did he address what might be called a public audience...
...Prime Minster Gladstone has offered the place of Poet Laureate, made vacant by the death of Lord Tennyson, to John Ruskin, the distinguished art critic...
...came to Harvard in 1860, when forty-nine years of age. His reputation was established, and his powers at their prime. He was a simple, unpretentious preacher, with none of the graces of the pulpit, and, judged superficially, he was not the man to draw the thoughtless element in the college. But his greatness soon made itself felt. In his words, was a sincerity which made the students give heed. A wisdom that made them believe, and a gentleness that made them love...