Word: void
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...borne almost single-banded the burden of the botanical harvest. It would be difficult to point to any other scientific man, with the single exception of Charles Darwin, who has in his own department of learning so entirely impressed himself upon the intellectual growth of a nation. No greater void in the scientific world has been made since the death of Louis Agassiz, the naturalist...
...treasurer. The nominees were all elected by acclamation. The report of the executive committee was called, but the chairman, Mr. Mahany, refused to submit it, whereupon it was moved that he be expelled from the Union. A ballot, resulting in an affirmative victory, was taken, but was declared void by the chair, because one member admitted to his having voted illegally. Reference was made to the notices posted in the college buildings yesterday, and signed by certain members of the Union. It was denounced as a forgery. No reply was made to the denunciation. After numerous motions to adjourn...
...anticipated formation of a Law School magazine, to be devoted to the interests of the students in that department. The directors are men of undoubted ability and energy, who, if properly supported, will carry their plan to its fulfilment. We are told that this magazine will fill a void that has long been felt at the Law School, and we wish the originators of our future contemporary every success...
...McKenzie, be, if he were debarred tracing his professional lineage back to Thomas Shepard? There too was Nathaniel Ward, who framed for the young Colony its "Body of Liberties," and who held up to their gaze some of their foibles in his "Simple Cobbler of Agawam?" What a void in the history of toleration would exist if Roger Williams with his doctrine of Soul-liberty, as he called it, had not passed, for the good of both, I suspect, from the bay of the Massachusetts to that of the Narragansetts? These were but few of the spirits who were transplanted...
Work is the foundation of happiness. The idler may possess wealth, social position, and all that would seem to make life happy, but nothing can fill the void made by the absence of work. If, however, a man depends, as is most often the case, on his own ability to make his way in the world, success can only come from hard work. Spencer well says, "The first requisite for success in life is to be a good animal." Sound health is indispensable to activity, either of the body or of the mind, but it must be remembered that eternal...