Word: upright
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...America. Take it all in all, though, President Eliot has accomplished a great deal even if he has not been as wholly successful as he hoped. Our immortal orator, Henry Clay, once said, 'The noblest task possible to man is to teach the young to be earnest and upright; self-reliant and confident; patriotic and courageous.' This Mr. Eliot has done, or striven to do, and as far as he has succeeded, we can rightly congratulate and praise him. Let him enjoy his vacation in the tranquility which accompanies the knowledge of labor well done, conscious that he has left...
...moneyed atmosphere," which is noticed by this unfortunate writer. But to come to the most serious part of this newspaper article; impelled not by prejudice, perhaps, but by ignorance, this person is not content with attempting to defame the personal character of certain of the most respected and upright members of the senior and junior classes, but has attempted in a closing paragraph to depreciate the fair name of our college, whose honor we trust will never be stained by being compelled to acknowledge this writer as one of her sons. The closing statements in the Herald's article...
Students are invited to call and examine the large assortment of Upright Pianos and other instruments for sale or to rent at 28 Boylston St., Read Building, Cambridge...
Students are invited to call and examine the large assortment of Upright Pianos and other instruments for sale or to rent at 28 Boylston St., Read Building, Cambridge...
...made of oak, in exact imitation of the bronze chair of the original, and like the original, the simulated Harvard was wreathed with ivy and held and open book in his lap. The butcher had a long white apron upon him, a square cap on his head, and stood upright at one corner of the dray leaning on an immense meat-axe. The grocer-parent sported a leather apron and sat upon a barrel of spices on an opposite corner, while the cooper, dressed in small clothes and a buff jerkin, was hammering upon a second cask. The whole...