Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...music department has contributed in no small degree to the renown of Harvard. Many of us can remember what a stir Professor Paine's CEdipus music made at the time of the Greek play-it ranks among the very best of recent music; and his last symphony has a European reputation. The estimation in which he is held by the best critics is indicated by the following remarks from the Nation of December 4, apropos of another recent work of his, the "Tempest." a symphonic poem, performed by Thomas's Brooklyn orchestra, recently...
...pilgrims had roofs to shelter them and food to keep them alive, they turned their attention toward matters of education, and a bill was passed in 1636 by the General Court of Massachusetts to found a college. It was at this time, that it pleased God to stir up the heart of one John Harvard to leave the half of his fortune, (L1, 700) and his library for the purpose of founding a college. Others gave modest sums and finally the State supplied what little money was needed in addition. The college was to be at Cambridge...
...longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust. And as we were thinking and consulting how to effect this great work, it pleased God to stir up the heart of Mr. John Harvard (minister of Charlestown), a godly gentleman, and a lover of learning, living among us, to give the he one-half of his estate, it being in all about 1700 pounds, towards the erecting of a college, and all his library. After him another...
...impressed with a sense of their utility or their singular fitness for life in what they regard as the more civilized portion of the country. There are some who are roused by the ambition of a Marlborough-to amass a great fortune. Others are sure they are born to stir the world. Others, still, have the spirit of a Swift, who only labored to distinguish himself that he might be used "like a lord," and that the "reputation of great learning might do the work of a blue ribbon and a coach-and-six." Numbers, too, like Charles Lamb...
...recent conference of Republicans who favor Civil Service Reform, which was held in New York a few days ago, is another proof of the expediency of doing something to stir up the students on this most important subject. This meeting was called by young men, and was managed by them throughout, the older leaders deferring that to them entirely. Within a few years those now in college will be at just the right age for this work, and their influence, if they are properly instructed now, will be immense. Moreover, these young men at New York, of whom several were...