Word: whose
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Whose tale is in oblivion hushed...
...Whose ragged walls were torn apart
...Whose gold was worth them nothing then...
...speaking hardly a chance is found, even in our societies, of which all the students are not members. No one can forget that some of the greatest English orators won their first laurels, and gave the first indications of a brilliant future, at the debates of a society whose only object was exercise in speaking; and Col. Higginson in the Boston Advertiser recently called attention to the excellence which the students at Amherst seem to have gained from somewhat similar practice in their open societies. Is it not worth our while to consider if it would not be advantageous...
...professors of colleges and lyceums are appointed by the minister of Public Instruction. This is another of the numerous faults of instruction given by the state. The minister does not always appoint the best men, but those who come to him the most strongly recommended, or those whose ideas are most conformable to his own. These professors - modest men, a truly honorable body - thus find themselves, in some sort, public functionaries. In 1852, after the coup d'etat of December, they were required to swear allegiance to the Empire. Certain of them, either because they had already sworn allegiance...