Word: speake
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...basket. Many men also have expressed a desire to be considered candidates for the board but have as yet not offered work sufficient to justify the board in their election. Clear, concise writing and a liberal endowment of commonsense with a determination to work are necessary above all. We speak thus plainly because for weeks we have been flooded with communications and specious editorials meant for publication but which we have been unable to offer to our readers for evident reasons. Two editors will be elected to the paper at the close of the mid-years. All who wish...
...Higginson began by saying that he wanted to speak for a few moments on the question of temperance on its moderate side and in a rational manner. Men of to-day, the writers and thinkers who had to deal with this question and also the men whom those agitating the cause of temperance wanted to reach, were rational beings who could see the errors of overstatement; and any influence over them would be lessened thereby. There was sanity in moderation in the use of intoxicants as much as in the total abstinence from them. He did not want it understood...
...community. The low estimate put upon the individual was one of the causes of the fall of the Greek republics. One danger lies in the tendency to subordinate the state to the individual. Passing to the christian conception of the world, the speaker emphasized the idea that when we speak of the kingdoms of this world as destined to become the kingdoms of our Lord, we mean not merely China and Japan, but the kingdoms of trade, art, learning, science, government. The institutions, customs, opinions, feelings of society must become Christian...
...University of Pennsylvania!" "I do not know much of it," was the reply; "but where you came from they knew how to teach Greek!" And that is beginning to be the world's comment: "We do not hear much of the University of Pennsylvania, but when it does speak, its words tell...
...such a feeling toward us, we should like to point at one as a possible danger to our friends who hold the reins of authority at our sister college. We hope that they will examine most thoroughly the changes which have been made with us and will profit, we speak with all modesty, by the victories which we have...