Word: standing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...popularity of the subject brought out an unusually large audience, every seat being taken and many being obliged to stand. Among the crowd were about a dozen Harvard men as well as Hill and Scott of Princeton, who came to study the tactics of the Yale speakers. The rebuttal work of both teams was far above the average. President Hadley, who presided, said it stood unrivalled. In the main speeches the Harvard men took occasion to rebut more than did the Yale representatives. But the Yale men in the regular rebuttal speeches had a slight advantage. This was the first...
...school of French symbolistic poets has had no one great writer, who can stand at its head as Victor Hugo stands at the head of the romantic movement. During the time of these French writers the curious idea of the color of vowels arose, an idea which was made ridiculous by Reghil, who carried of this time are three other men who deserve mention, Jean Moreas, a Greek by birth, and two Americans who settled in Paris, named Stuart Merril and Vielle-Griffin...
...best contribution to the current number of the Advocate is an anonymous sonnet on Great Britain's recent reverses in South Africa. It is one of the pieces of verse seen once in a while in the Advocate which will stand second reading...
...rates are offered. Special arrangements have been made with the class photographer about reproduction, to secure uniformity of style and appearance, and considerable inconvenience will result from failure to sit for the official photographer. These sitings are free, and it is hoped that every member of the class will stand by the committee in its contract. Photograph Committee...
...life. When President Eliot first saw him he was coming down the steps of Professor Walker's house, after having been told that his success as a teacher was hopeless. Then he became a minister, and for fourteen years worked assiduously in his profession. Owing to his steadfast stand for the Union, in Philadelphia, he was invited to speak at the Harvard College Commemoration Exercises in 1864, and this was the second time President Eliot saw him. Here Phillips Brooks poured forth such a flood of joyous, triumphant thanksgiving that not a man who heard him ever forgot...