Word: result
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...history for the benefit of future historians of Harvard College. In the spring of 1858, it was proposed to abolish the barbarous custom of having morning prayers at six o'clock in the spring and summer. Mr. Sophocles had already given his vote for the change, but before the result could be announced by the president, the not infrequent excitement of a small bonfire on the steps of University Hall interrupted the proceedings of the faculty. After the bonfire he changed his vote, and six o'clock prayers were kept another year by a majority of one. On hearing...
...placed him in the light in which posterity must view him. If, instead of carping at Mr. Arnold's frank and fair criticism, our people would only put away their own ideas and take Emerson as he actually is, it would much simplify the working out of a result which must be found true in time...
...turn to be puzzled now. I looked earnestly at the sallow young lady before me, and feeling a little curious as to the result of my next question, I said...
...part of a gay young gentleman's evening's amusement. Canning, writing a dutiful, though stilted, letter to his uncle from Oxford, memtioned quite casually that, returning from a political debate at the coffee-house, he and six friends had fallen in with two watchmen who, as the result of this encounter, turpe solum tetigere mento. Even the decorous Charles Greville tells us how, after dinning at White's, he had a spar with some bobbies in the Haymarket, and scampered home, leaving his hat in their possession, when they had sprung their rattle and got reinforcements. These were discreditable...
...conduct could only arouse abhorrence in all right-thinking minds. Besides we are inclined to think that the popular cheer is not so much influenced by the peculiar forms of college cheers as the Times would imply, and that its growing short, sharp and brittle sound is merely the result of the combined influence of the climate and of the rushing, brisk and nervous character of the American people...