Word: putting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...college in the last seven or eight years, inviting them to subscribe, and collectors will be sent around among the students that each man may have an opportunity of subscribing. At the same time a perfectly definite statement of the use to which the fund shall be put and of the persons who shall administer it, will be published. This, it is hoped, will bring the matter down from the air and put it on a firm business basis. We emphasize again the fact that men are not urged to give subscriptions; they are simply furnished with the opportunity...
Shakespeare can not be said to have originated the historical drama; in fact he was hardly an originator in any direction. It was rather his strong point to develope what he found: into the dough which others made he put the yeast which caused it to rise. In this way he took the old Chronicles which existed before his time, and by varying adherence to them and departure from them developed his famous plays. He adhered to the Chronicles in so far as there is a stratum of historical fact in all of the dramas of which we are speaking...
...therefore already patent, it appears that during this time women have given five times as much for the education of men alone as for the education of women alone, and they have given nearly twice as much for men's colleges as for women's colleges and mixed colleges put together. During only two of these thirteen years has Harvard failed to receive considerable gifts from women, and the total amount received by Harvard alone exceeds the amount received by all the women's colleges put together...
...have. When once people understand, however, the efficiency of the work ought to be as great as ever. In connection with this Mr. Cobb wishes the circulars which Mr. Bolles sent out to seniors to be handed in just as if Mr. Bolles were still living. They will be put on file and positions will be sought for men as usual. Mr. Cobb is very anxious to have all the circulars handed in as soon as possible...
...which it tells, but it always tells the same story; it can tell but one story because of the care which has been taken to represent this one idea truthfully. A picture fulfilling our ideal gives the suggestion of nature with just sufficient accuracy to enable the outsider to put his own characters in the place of those on the canvas, so that the picture is a new story for every fresh individualism that sees...