Word: seed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Tuftonian published recently an editorial urging the formation of a New England Inter-Collegiate Press Association, and asked for communications upon the subject from certain New England college publications. The matter has as yet been mentioned by few of our exchanges and it seems to us that the seed sown by the Tuftonian has fallen upon very barren ground. In other words, it seems as if there is but little necessity for such an organization between those college journals which aspire to some degree of literary excellence. It must be known to our contemporary that a Press Association is already...
...teaches us it is this fact. We may deceive ourselves into fancied security, but this law will always find us out. The subject divides itself into four divisions upon which emphasis ought to be put, namely, that everyone must expect to reap what he sows, the same kind of seed and more than he sows, and finally that ignorance of the seed does not make the result any less certain...
...next toast was given by President Devens as follows - The founders and the benefactors of Harvard College. May the seed which they have sown be gathered in an abundant harvest...
...young clergyman - for it would seem that he was in orders, and his association with Emmanuel, the puritan seed-plot, had given a bent to his theological views - soon married Ann Sadler and drawn by those sympathies, we may well believe, which took Cotton and the other Emmanuel men to the New World, he is found before long in the New England Charlestown, where he built a house, which Judge Sewall tells us of, and which seems to have stood till the fire which swept the slopes of that peninsula during the battle of Bunker Hill, levelled...
...scholarly. To many of us these lectures have been of great practical usefulness. The harmful effects which are produced by ignorance, and a lack of proper care for our physical well-being have been put before our eyes so forcibly that there can be no doubt but that the seed has fallen on fertile soil. The last lecture of the course promises to be of unusual interest, and the attendance to-night should be even larger than it has been in the past...