Word: worded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...must beg to be excused for bringing up again a very old and worn-out subject, but it seems to us that a word in time may possibly save us from that daily bane which will soon threaten--a chapel service with the temperature somewhere near zero. The faculty have from time to time done much to increase our interest in morning prayers by improving the services, singing etc., but they seem to have forgotten a very important point-that even students need to be kept above a certain temperature if the interest is to be maintained. It has been...
...first information that we have of his presence here is from the records of his admission as an inhabitant of Charlestown on the 1st of August, 1637, where he was sometimes "minister of God's Word." He was called the Reverend in New England and was known as a preacher, but as to whether he had been ordained in England or not we are in ignorance. There is no record moreover of his ordination as a dissenter either there or here. In a little less than a year after his arrival in America, he died of consumption, leaving...
...labors of research, failed to accomplish in the case of Harvard what he did for so many other of our worthies, We recall the fervor of his utterance here when he spoke, as he has published in print, to effect that he would give a guinea for each word, or a hundred dollars for each of five lines of information about John Harvard in England. There is necessarily much that is unsatisfactory in a wholly idealized representation by art of an historical person of whose form, features and lineaments there are no certifications. It is hardly to be expected that...
...kept most rigidly within the limits of the original endowment, and only the sons of "gentlemen" can become members of it. This secures the most polite and academic pronunciation, and in no instance is it possible to hear the least deviation from the most high-bred pronunciation of every word of the entire service...
...Boston Post : "The time of year is close at hand when a great many hundred young men and women will enter upon college life ; almost as many more will leave it, and a still greater number will advance a stage upon the real or apparent path of knowledge. A word of advice may not be out of place, at least to those who are yet this side, of their journey's end so far as a college diploma constitutes the goal. There is a too prevalent idea in the minds of young people that education is an affair of routine...