Word: towardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Eastern Tennessee Wesleyan University, of Athens, Tenn., has changed its name to the "Grant Memorial University," as the General was first to subscribe toward its foundation. There are now about two hundred and fifty enrolled in the University. - Yale News...
...ministry, are so well filled, in this country, that it takes an exceptionally gifted man to raise himself above the average. The lawyer who must spend all his time in defending clients, in order to support himself and his family, cannot fairly be called upon to make a step toward rectifying the errors and faults of the law which are growing more numerous every day. The consequence is, and always has been, that the law gets far behind the requirements of the age in some matters, until a truly eminent jurisconsult makes its improvement his life work. Such things...
Thus we find all kinds of feeling toward Harvard and her work, from adoration and respect to toleration and ridicule...
...Amherst Student thus speaks of the advantage to foot-ball occasioned by the action of the Harvard faculty: "This interesting test case reinstates the game upon an equal footing with other inter-collegiate sports, while at the same time exerting a strong influence toward preventing its degradation from that honorable position...
...brave youthe of ye faire Harvardes lepte forth yth ye balle, but was caste down by ye farreare man of Yayle. Atte ys ye youthes smote ye men and ye men strucke ye youthes and there was muche tarrying from ye-playe. Then ye great rusherman of Yayle sallied toward ye hene-coope but at ye worde of Master P. rested by ye pond. Master P. anon admonished ye men of Yayle and ye worde was againe spoken. Alass for ye youthes, ye stronge men sallied and alsoe struck ye Master despitefully. Atte ys ye widowe Hariss sette loose...