Word: worded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...subject, this of the man who has some music in his soul, but who is moved to express his soulful feeling by something else than the concord of sweet sounds. Not once during the whole course of the examinations has a word of complaint been uttered; but the time his come when pent-up sufferings must at last find vent in words. Neither the piano flend, nor the man who plays any of those hideously shaped, and fearful sounding instruments-whose names are known only to members of the Pierian Sodality-is here found fault with...
...surprising that at this time anybody should be so inconsiderate as to remove from the library the set of examination papers on the modern languages. "Remove" is almost too mild a word to use in this case...
...condemn her where she needed condemning, or to praise her where she has deserved praise, and it is just this openness and freedom that gives weight to what he writes. In the few lines I have quoted at the beginning of this paragraph, the may is an important word. Harvard merits the praise that is given her; but whether the substance of it is realized depends on the students themselves. As a college, Harvard offers the most superior advantages for education, in her library, laboratories and corps of instruction. Whether these advantages are properly appreciated or not must be proved...
...Yale club or our own men will find themselves unprepared. We are led to suppose that our club is able to put a good team into the field, though it lost two excellent rifle shots in last year's class. At any rate, since there has been no word received from New Haven, we hope that our men will take the initiative and send a challenge, so that it may be known whether or not there is to be a match this year...
...writer on comparative religion ; Cannon Liddon, the first preacher in the English church; Principal Shairp, the another of "Culture and Religion ;" John Ruskin, Bonamy Price, and a host of others equally distinguished, attract but little attention. But having said so much for Oxford, patriotism leads me to add one word more. I believe that the average education afforded at both Harvard and Yale is of a higher order than that realized at Oxford. There may be more men here of world-wide reputation than at any university with us, but many of them are here as figureheads...