Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nothing of this kind will take place again. We would also inform the freshmen that there is a college rule forbidding the kindling of bon-fires within the yard, and, althongh we think this is an uncalled for regulation, we believe in yielding obedience to established authority, and therefore trust that no more fires will be lighted within the interdicted territory...
...child's attitude of touching hopefulness is peculiarly striking in this particular. The confidence which he reposes in the fitness and adequacy of providence is nowhere better exemplified than in the unhesitating trust in which he permits his parents to take care of themselves...
...trust that Dr. Hart's absence from his classes will not be a long-continued one. History 13, under his management, has been fast becoming, so to speak, one of the prescribed courses of the elective system. The students recognise it as one of the most valuable courses offered by the college, and comparatively few men in each class pass through college without electing it. This is not only an indication of the importance of the subject which the course treats of, but it is also a testimonial to the merits of the instructor. Dr. Hart's absence, therefore, will...
...what not which have been imposed upon the English by mistaken scholars. It is such a grammar that has weighed down our poor, be-parsed English speaking people, so that when their freedom was proclaimed a few years ago, and a man in whom some of them put some trust dared to tell them that they might fling off their incubus in the name of great common sense, from every country where English is spoken there came back to him cries of relief and utterances of hearty thanks, which have not yet died away.- Richard Grant White...
Striving to do better, oft we mar what's well. If the president succeeds in composing the board of younger counselors, I trust he may, in the words of the preacher, "miss not the discourse of the elders...