Word: worded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Amount of matter. (A column of the "Advocate" contains the same number of words as a page of the proposed Monthly; in measuring the amount of space, we shall use the word "page" in speaking of both the "Advocate," and the proposed Monthly, meaning by "page," the amount of matter on the page of a Monthly.) The size of the proposed Monthly would be, probably, 28 pages, ten numbers a year. If the "Advocate" can get 100 new subscribers next year, (in addition to those it already has), it will add sufficiently to the size of the paper...
...oration by Dr. Brooks was a striking testimony to the place which the old school has found in the hearts of its graduates and breathed through every word a love and veneration for the famous school. The speaker spoke at some length of the past history of the school from the time when it occupied a shed on Spring Lane to the present time when it occupies the finest public school building in the world...
Athenaeum: Professor in French: "Ces Dames." Student takes him at his word-general confusion ensues...
...state of confusion, uncertainty and suspense, which means practical failure. In at least three impotant publications representing Harvard teaching, the ground is taken that Christ was not superior to Jewish error in his time. If this were true, there would be no help for it. The supreme word on the Harvard College seal, Veritas, is the supreme word of all real religion. But the opinion that truth did not find a Master in Christ wholly superior to all Jewish error is solely the result of not sifting the sources of our knowledge of Christ. Hesitating to handle the Bible...
...distinguish clearly enough between the uses of the Greek negative particles. One after another gave up in turn, till the question was put to a man who happened to remember the distinction as given in the Professor's Greek Grammar. Rising in his place, he gave the paragraph word for word. Professor Sophocles, with a look of satisfaction, settled back in his chair and growled out, "There, that sounds like something...