Word: refrains
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...dilate here on Professor Kuhnemann's inspiring personality and oratorical power; but I cannot refrain from saying that not for a long number of years have Harvard students had such an opportunity, as is offered now by his courses, to be led into the spirit of German literature. Especially his course on the modern German drama cannot help being of the greatest possible value to all those who wish to understand the important intellectual movements which now are stirring Europe. KUNO FRANCKE
...theory of education in the Middle Ages was unfolded for us by the treatises of Aeneas Sylvius, and its practice illustrated by the writings of Vittorino Guarino and others. But these men were theorists; far greater were the two teachers who exemplify the practice of learning, though they refrain from embodying it in any formal treatise, --Vittorino da Feltre and Guarino of Verona. Both founded schools in Italy and both, by advocating a liberal education--bodily as well as mental exercise, Greek as well as the Latin culture--together taught the many scholars who for centuries kept alive their fame...
...hear the refrain...
Further improvements on the Stadium will be made slowly, as the policy of the Athletic Association is to refrain from increasing the debt already incurred on the structure...
...band started "Up the Street" at 1.53, and the Harvard side of the field took up the refrain with singing and whistling. At 1.55 the Yale team came on the field. Clarkson led a cheer for Yale while the Yale team was going through signal practice...