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Word: repeating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...request of a number of students Professor Norton has consented to repeat here at Harvard the lectures on Dante which he gave last spring in Baltimore at Johns Hopkins University. The lectures, which will be open to the public, will probably begin in March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Norton's Lectures. | 1/22/1895 | See Source »

...RINGWALT'S SPEECH.The next speaker was Ralph Curtis Ringwalt '95, for Harvard. He was a little unsteady at first and was apt throughout his speech to repeat unnecessarily. These were only minor faults; in the main he was sure of his ground, brought out his points well, was simple, strong, eloquent at times and almost always held the close attention of the house. He said that the workingman was confronted with a condition of affairs,-he had lost control on account of the factory system, he was confronted with organization on one hand and all they asked was that they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD WINS. | 1/19/1895 | See Source »

...hands of so reliable a man as Wrenn, who has time and again proved that he deserves the confidence which all the team feel in him. His handling of the team in the games this fall has been unnsually cool and clear headed, and he may be trusted to repeat his excellent work tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrenn is Field Captain. | 11/24/1894 | See Source »

...pure, is noticeable in that it is not such that the ordinary man should hesitate to take it into his mouth. In this it differs strikingly from some of our hymns which no one but a hypocrite or at least a very unhappy and discontented man can honestly repeat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: St. Paul's Society. | 5/3/1894 | See Source »

...hymns of the Episcopal Church are in words that convey the deepest meaning that is in the power of language, and if we consider carefully what we say we think it is not possible that we should be sincere. If we cannot be, it is more than useless to repeat these prayers and phrases that are only so many empty words. It hurts ourselves and it hurts the Church. We can bring ourselves, however, to say these prayers and to mean them by comparing our own very imperfect lives with the life of Christ, and when we see, like Peter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: St. Paul's Society. | 3/22/1894 | See Source »

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