Word: exhortation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sides sit Adamses, Quincys, Cushings, Paines, Wards, Warrens, Emersons, and Pickerings, recalling the qualities, and even the features of our heroes, of the Revolutionary period. So may our descendants shout in this very hall, when 50 years, hence, the President shall recall heroic names of our day, and shall exhort another generation to be worthy of their father's fame...
...winners. Harvard has her reputation to uphold in tennis as in the other branches of athletics; a very good showing was made last autumn, but of course the more good players we can bring forward, the better chance we have for keeping up this reputation. So we exhort every man who has ever played to come out next week and try his luck...
...will be quickly satisfied, no doubt. But in other courses, where the men number hundreds, and one instructor has several such, great delay in getting back the examination books necessarily results. Weeks, and in a few cases months, must elapse before the students learn their marks. We can only exhort them to have patience, to reason with themselves on the prospect of their instructors who are toiling through thousands of pages of strange handwriting in their endeavors to approximate the knowledge of the subject in hand possessed by the writers. Truly, the work of grinding up a course and writing...
...present so few have signed that the success of the affair is very doubtful, to say the least. We have previously spoken of the advantages of class dinners, and have also mentioned that no time is so well suited for such occasions as the junior year. We urgently exhort all '83 men to sign today, and help make the dinner a memorable success...
When the Pope heard of the assassination in Dublin he sent instructions to the Irish bishops to request the clergy to express from their pulpits execration of the crime, and exhort the faithful to respect the law of the land...