Word: speak
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...respect of the Faculty and the esteem of the students. It was to the great regret of all undergraduates that he resigned his position in 1872 to accept the management of the literary department of the Nation. Of what he has done there it is unnecessary to speak. Every reader of the Nation knows with what power and ability that department of the paper has been managed for the past two years...
...sure of a college man's hatred of cant when he comes face to face with something in regard to which his prejudice or his passion may be excited. It is for this reason that I wish to offer an apology, if in the following I should seem to speak irreverently of old college articles of faith and of customs springing from them. The subject of the Class elections is turning the mind of some portion of the undergraduates towards Class-Day. And while we are yet far enough off to examine coolly, let us ask ourselves whether we should...
Does it not speak of clayey shroud...
...into the high office whose duties he has so faithfully discharged and whose honors he has so modestly borne. For a half-decade the advancing prosperity of our University has borne witness to his unflagging zeal and thorough liberality of mind; and were we called upon to-day to speak more especially of our President's fitness for his present position, we could but repeat the words of Ex-Governor Clifford at the inauguration...
...ambition for true manliness and greatness, we feel how infinitely more effective might be the words of the great mass of preachers would they but be a little less ready to tread the way their fathers trod. This last remark brings us to what we more especially desire to speak of and that is the pictures of heaven with which many sermons are crammed full. Now, in all Christian charity, granting that the preacher does not crib so freely from Revelation and the Psalms for the purpose of saving himself mental labor, what does the preacher gain by such...