Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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These Druids were living repositories of learning. They spent a great part of their life in committing to memory an enormous number of verses, embracing the experience and the ideals of the people. To retain these the more surely in their minds a great number of mechanical devices were invented, and these devices, especially that of rhyme, have lasted to our own days...
...distinction as yet has been made between the crews. In consequence of the coming of new candidates and the going of others, the positions of the men are changed almost every day. The strokes alone retain their positions. Watriss '92 is coaching now. He has almost entire charge, but Vail '93 comes in occasionally. Yesterday the men rowed in the following positions...
Hutchins Hapgood writes a short plea for the preservation of the childish simplicity and contemplativeness of all of us, which the college career tends to destroy. He says: "A college course is useful primarily because it helps to retain-by virtue of its emphasizing influence-that element of genius in each man which he may possess; it helps each one of us to retain that simple interest in the world and its beauty, in things unconnected with ends, which may serve to rest and sooth us all through life and may keep for us that unconcern, that charming insouciance, which...
...Harvard has reason to do more than merely congratulate herself that she is to retain an invaluable instructor. The opportunities held out to Professor Palmer by his offer from Chicago were of the most brilliant and dazzling nature. His field would have been very wide, his position conspicuous, and his chance for self-advancement unusually great, yet all these attractions were not sufficient. Exactly what the considerations were that kept him with us, this is not the place to discuss. Whatever they were this one thing is certain, that they were sufficient to make him decline an offer that must...
...school will be small at first, being limited to fifty boarders, and will be gradually increased until it reaches its maximum - 200. The school will retain some of the features of the regular preparatory schools, but in the methods of instruction - especially in English branches and dead languages, several modifications will be made. The school will be non-sectarian, and a number of unique plans for education will be adopted...