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Word: strives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...strive, nor soul-awakening want defy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SONNET. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

...system which permits such injustice. That the evil exists every student well knows, however disinclined some may be, for very obvious reasons, to acknowledge or speak of it. Not only is the average system often unjust, but it is calculated, in the case of those students who strive only for marks, to work serious evil. The only way to avoid this result is courageously to sacrifice college rank to more solid advantages in after life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW SYSTEM OF HONORS. | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

...been conferred upon him, and with it a responsibility, for in the title was a new claim for upright and honorable action. If not a son of Harvard, he was her adopted son, and he felt the sense of brotherhood He should not forget the honor, and he should strive in the future to show that they had not bestowed it upon a man insensible to all that it justly needed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXTRACTS FROM SPEECHES AT THE ALUMNI DINNER. | 7/3/1877 | See Source »

...factions often came to blows over the merits of rival instructors, but the most serious rows were between town and gown, - for the students of "the fair metropolis of the world of mind" then strove with as much eagerness as the students of the metropolis of America now strive to make their occupation known by the distinctive academic dress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT LIFE IN ATHENS. | 6/15/1877 | See Source »

WITH Poesy's fair chains I strive to bind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SONNET. | 5/19/1876 | See Source »

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