Word: rare
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Jefferson. These could not be overthrown. By this time the fire had got beyond all bounds, and leaped from the annex to the rotunda. The firemen at once directed their attention to this building, as in it was the fine library of 63,000 volumes, many of them extremely rare and valuable; a life-size statue of Jefferson, and a large number of magnificent portraits and rare works of art. The students succeeded in saving thousands of the books and some of the paintings. Among the portraits burned was that of Jefferson. The statue of Jefferson, which is very heavy...
Even though one has no more laudable motive for studying the Bible, than that of personal culture, one can not afford to miss the rare training, which such study is bound to afford. Froude once said, "The Bible, thoroughly known, is a literature of itself, the rarest and richest in all departments of thought and imagery, which exists." When such a scholar has expressed such a decided conviction on the subject, has any man the right to call himself well educated, until he has at least some adequate knowledge of such a book...
...Memorial Society has a rare opportunity of service to the University. For a place as rich as Harvard is in historical associations, remarkably little has been done to make memorable the spots about which they centre. To few of the men who have built up Harvard, whether by efforts directed immediately to her advancement or by the honor which their service to the world at large has reflected upon her, have visible memorials been erected...
...visit of the Cambridge athletes next week will be one of the most noteworthy events of the year. It will be a rare privilege to extend hospitality to the representatives of our mother-university in England and to judge from the elaborate preparations that are being made, every advantage will be taken of this opportunity. Although, as the antagonists of the English visitors in the game today, Yale has been their natural host, yet from considerations of academic kinship the duty of welcoming the Cambridge team in behalf of the ocuntry devolves peculiarly and most appropriately upon Harvard...
...reasonable ability to speak before an assemblage, of greater of less proportions, is becoming more and more a necessary part of one's education. The club debates furnish a rare opportunity for the cultivation of such powers, by the rule which permits any one to speak from the floor after the principal disputants have closed...