Word: throngs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trading. The university is not an angle, but a circle touching every part of the world with doors in it for the various schools of learning. It is imperative that there should be some place where the graver questions of life may be studied apart from the multitudinous throng of every-day studies, and for that purpose this church was built. Learning, when free, rises to worship, and study, when untrammeled, soars to communion with God, and for this worship the door is wide open. As soon as men feel the influence of Christ, humanity thrives, charity increases. The best...
...should attend these gatherings, and should discuss so earnestly and thoroughly the great questions of the day in collegiate methods of instruction. While a dinner of Harvard alumni would be an impossibility in the vicinity of Boston, as no hotel would be able to accommodate such a vast throng as would appear, we may feel assured that the influence of Harvard does not wane on account of the impossibility of holding alumni dinners of their own. Even at the bluest of blue Yale assemblies, a Harvard representative is one of the honored guests, and eloquent words are not lacking...
...English faultlessly so that his lectures will be so much the more enjoyable. The students ought to be grateful to the college authorities for affording them the opportunity of gaining instruction at the hands of so eminent a teacher and Sanders Theatre will no doubt be filled with a throng of people who have come to hear Italy's eminent scholar...
...this throng come up, out of the bustle and strife of the forum and the market place, to our academic seat? What spirit stirs this multitude to-day? You have come to pay homage to the university of your love, and through it to all universities; because in them truth is sought, knowledge increased and stored, literature, science and art are fostered, and honor, duty, and piety are taught. The spirit in which you come is a spirit of profound and well-grounded hopefulness...
...welcoming full orbed day before it was ended. I have attended similar gatherings in Heidelberg before, but none which in magnitude and glory could be compared with this. Grave professors, gray-haired students of bygone times, guests, royal and otherwise, jaunty young corps students with their bright-colored caps throng impetuously into the hall. As is usual in a bier kommers, there is some preliminary attempt at literary exercises, either to ease the consciences of the revellers, or, what is more probable, to sweeten by contrast the subsequent carousal. There is some brief speech-making and bowing and toasting...