Word: speake
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...handed in by the different college branches. Sunday afternoon, the 22d, there will be another meeting, when the Rev. A. J. Gordon, D. D., of Boston, will address the convention, and a discussion will follow. On Sunday evening the final meeting will be held to hear several gentlemen speak who are prominently connected with Christian Association work, and the convention will then be brought to a close. It was hoped that Messrs. Moody and Sayford would be present, but other engagements will prevent them from attending. A full programme of each day's proceedings will be published on convention week...
Thus Cardinal Newman upon the clerical pomps and vanities at Oxford: "I can not bear the pomp and pretense which I see everywhere. I am not speaking against individuals, but I speak of the system. There are ministers of Christ with large incomes, living in finely furnished houses, with wives and families, and stately butlers, and servants in livery, giving dinners all in the best style, so descending and gracious, waving their hands, and mincing their words as if they were the cream of the earth, but without anything to make them clergymen but a black coat and white...
...There was reason for the use of Latin in the earlier catalogues. At that time students had college names, "just as the monks had their monastic names," and were not permitted to speak English within college limits. "When Comfort and Giles, in running "across the college yard, chaffed each "other in their mother tongue, Consolantius and Aegidius were forthwith "summoned to the president's office, "and, after receiving a suitabel reprimand in the Latin of the period, were "subjected to such corporeal discipline "under the eye or the hand of the president as then commended itself to the "average Puritan...
...recess, I had the fortune to make a hasty visit to the new building of the Medical School, the Harvard home of the successors of Hippocrates and Aesculapins, now being used for the second year. Of the outside of the great building on Boylston street it is needless to speak ; it is familiar to most of the undergraduates either by personal observation or photographs. Few of them, however, see the inside, and it is not till after graduation that a certain large per cent of the A. B's who have enrolled themselves in the school become familiar with...
...result has been rather startling in its nature. Among the many happenings which this much-gifted prophet foretells for us, one at least we modestly assert will prove incorrect. Others, it is very probable, may be no more correct than this, but of those we do not speak, we lay no claims to the mysterious art of the seer...