Word: warmest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...conclusion, gentlemen, I cannot sit down without expressing to you my warmest admiration of the scene at which I was permitted to assist this morning. The dignity, the solemnity of that performance has made a most profound impression upon my mind. And above all, when I consider the amount of rhetorical ability, of learning, of philosophical acumen, I cannot help saying to myself, if the young America of to-day can produce such evidences of talent what will be the America of the future...
...base-ball at Harvard, notwithstanding the stumbling-blocks raised by the powers that be, and our heartiest wishes are that his successors may, for many generations, follow out as nearly as possible the admirable example of a captain set by F. W. Thayer. To Tyng the College extends her warmest praise, for his pluckiness in facing Ernst's swift delivery with his broken finger; at New Haven he appeared as a mountain of strength to infuse confidence into what Yale regarded as a forlorn hope, and New Haven knows full well how successful he was. Ernst demonstrated by his effective...
...indifference. We are concerned for the good name of our College, but not being explosive in our feelings we merely adapt the words of Junius to Sir W. Draper for this occasion. Your attack, Sir, does honor to the goodness of your heart. You express yourself in the warmest language of your passions. In any other case I doubt not you would have cautiously weighed the consequences, but here I presume you thought it would be a neglect of duty to lose one moment by consulting your understanding. We forgive your excesses and place them to the account...