Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...province tax, the young minister "braved the tyrant's anger by advising his people not to comply with that order; for which he was arrested, tried, deposed from the ministry, fined and thrown into prison." He was in fact, a type of the revolutionary minister which Thomas Buchanan Read has described in his poem on "The Revolutionary Rising...
...first prizes in former runs of the club will be handicapped one and one-half minutes. The run will not exceed 15 miles, and all members covering the entire distance at the rate of twelve miles per hour will receive "time cups." The rules governing the run will be read before the start, hence all are urged to be on trial...
...compelled to repeat last year's disagreeable experience of waiting half an hour outside a closed hall. At a quarter past eight the meeting was called to order, and the treasurer of the crew read his report, which showed the class to be over $900 in debt. After an exciting balloting for officers for the ensuing year, Barnes was elected president; Huddleston, vice president; and Gardner, secretary and treasurer. Harris was chosen captain of the crew: Phillips, captain of the nine; and Adams captain of the eleven...
...almost bewildering when one looks about him for the facts on which their opinions are based, to read so frequently from able and high-minded newspapers of the very general incapacity of college-bred men for the practical affairs of life. Generally this estimate of the value and efficiency of college-bred men finds expression in connection with lamentations over the condition of labor and the laborers of the community. If only the collegebred men had trades instead of "education," then things would have been, if not still exactly right, pretty nearly right...
...think the officers of the H. A. A. for the coming year would do well to consider the plan suggested by President Lowell, in his address read at the last meeting of the association. We refer to his project of instituting class championships in the fall and winter meetings. Class flags or trophies of some sort, to be given to the class winning the most victories, would arouse a healthy class feeling. Each class would do it sutmost to bring forward all available candidates in the effort to win this trophy. This rivalry between the classes would increase the number...