Word: worded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Among the floral decorations at Junior Promenade Concert at Yale, was suspended a large floral foot-ball, bearing the word "champion" in white upon its sides; from it hung two smaller foot-balls, painted crimson and orange and black. During the evening the football, with its appendages, fell and broke upon the floor. Was it an ill omen? [Princetonian...
...James Freeman Clark gave one of his characteristic addresses last evening before the Divinity students. His subject was: "The Evotution of the Christian Minister." He chose this subject, he said, wishing to be in fashion. The old word was "development." Both words mean growth. He then gave a very interesting and practical discussion, illustrated largely from his own experience, of the growth of the minister in the performance of his clerical duties...
...second resolution, of course, raises the question what it a "professional," as to which, as many of our readers know, there is a vast body of learning in existence, but as yet no common agreement. Assuming that the word is here used roughly to de note any one who is not undergraduate, but who rows or plays ball as a matter of business, it seems rather hard that a college nine or crew should not have a right to get themselves coached by such a man. The objection mentioned in the resolution is that the crew or nine with...
...college, we shall stand on this question all Greeks together. Though there may be a Cicoro and a Demosthenes they will both be united against Macedon. We all stand together against that senseless cry which speaks of the great ancient languages as dead in any offensive sense of that word. On this great question of classical languages depend upon it we shall take no step backward...
...single part. Each speaker is invited to deal with some point in which his special vocation touches the thought or the life of students of Theology. Thus, the corporation, the overseers, the Law School, and the Medical School and the various departments of the college, each says its word to the Divinity School. This step of the Divinity School is an example worth imitating. It is good for the teachers, because it leads them to discuss the larger relations of their special subjects; and it is good for the students, because they hear the best advice of a great variety...