Word: worded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reference under his pseudonyme. Works published by Government, are arranged under the country. with a sub-head, department; Society documents are entered under the name of the place which enters into the title of the society, but when the place is not known, they are entered under the first word of the title. In order to find works of Greek or Latin authors, one must look in the Subject catalogue, under sub-heads, under Greek and Latin. If a book is made up of a collection of essays, reference will be found to it under the several authors. Many books...
...word freedom has many meanings. When who say that a stream is not free to flow because it is frozen, we do not speak of the same freedom as when we say that a Negro is not free to vote because he is intimidated. For the Negro may still vote if he has cour-age enough to run the risk; but the frozen stream cannot possibly flow. Besides, a stream is not free to flow except when it is actually flowing, but a man may be free to vote and yet never cast his ballot. Thus by liberty we mean...
...paper on " The Bible Class," presented by Mr. Richards of Amherst, followed by a discussion on the same subject, and an address by the Rev. A. J. Gordon, D. D., of Boston. Dr. Gordon referred his hearers to the Epistles of Timothy and Titus, taking as his subject " The Word of God and the Man of God." The address was very interesting, and an unusually large number of students were present. The meeting closed at about four o'clock...
...themes sat upon, but we didn't have sense enough to make public our feelings on such occasions. Seriously, if the subject was so painful a one, why did the gentleman attempt a theme on it. Could his pent-up grief find no better outlet than in a 250 word theme in an examination book? And he not only writes a theme on the subject, but afterwards, in a fit of petty spite, bawls out his grief in a newspaper. We express no opinion as to the taste displayed, but we do hope that, after his sophomore year, he will...
...students of still another inland institution of learning have been forced to make a stand against the oppressive restrictions laid upon them by the faculty. Last Saturday, ten cadets of the Highland Military Academy at Worcester, Mass., sent word to the faculty that, unless they were allowed to visit the theatre, the skating rink, and a certain billiard room on their afternoons out, they would leave the academy. As the faculty did not accept this ultimatum, the ten carried out their threat and abandoned the institution. The spirited way in which these young gentlemen resented the tyranny of their superiors...