Word: hold
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...class of 1908 will hold and informal smoker in the Trophy Room of the Union this evening at 7.30 o'clock. This is the second gathering of the class for an occasion of this kind since graduation. Refreshments will be served and informal entertainment will be provided. All 1908 men in the University of in the vicinity of Cambridge are urged to attend...
...venture to say that you expected me to speak to you from the view point of the teacher and not from the view point of that other side of education dealing with the administration of the college. Those who hold the offices of administration, while they are dealing with the art of education, hold, nevertheless, a special position with regard to the profession, just as the judge on the bench holds a special position with regard to the profession of law. When a teacher goes in for administration he degrades both the office to which he succeeds and the profession...
...certain inward satisfactions that have been revealed to me in the few years I have been in educational circles. In undergraduate life, the supreme pleasure is to obtain such a control of the mind, that will enable you to turn upon any subject that may interest you, and hold it there until it delivers to you all that is possible to see,--to show up to you all that is within that subject, that man is capable of discovering. There is constantly in the college community a lifting up from plane to plane, higher and higher. The social life combines...
...Harvard Club of Philadelphia will hold a reception to the undergraduates at Cambridge from Philadelphia on January first, 1910, at 9 P. M., at the Racquet Club, Sixteenth street, below Walnut street, Philadelphia...
...Meantime the performance of the hero was constantly gaining in firmness and assurance, and Dickon was more and more admirable. The beginning of the fourth act showed a falling off. It is doubtful whether, with any acting, the long soliloquies of Ravensbane at this point could be made to hold an audience; but, as it was, Savery's elocution was here hardly equal to the task of making poetry atone for lack of dramatic action. As the other characters entered, however, interest revived; and the closing conception of the tragedy was set forth clearly and tellingly...