Word: impression
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Vesper Service held yesterday afternoon in Appleton Chapel under the preachers to the University could not fail to deeply impress all hearers. It is indeed a privilege to be permitted to listen to such noble and eloquent words as were addressed to the students of the University, while the beautiful music, selected and rendered with exquisite taste, was an inspiring addition to the dignity of the service. The members of the University may almost regard the institution of Vesper Services as an answer to their demand, for in the discussion of Harvard's religious system before the recent changes...
...college library, by permission, its autograph of every graduate living now or hereafter." The graduates met on Commencement day, 1848, and as the preface runs, "having received so much pleasure from the reunion of early friends, and the recollections of pleasures, which time had only served to impress more deeply, decided to do their part to foster the idea of semicentennial reunions." The plan was to divide each page of the book into halves vertically. On the left division the graduates were to sign their names as they left college, and those who were present at the class meeting fifty...
...signatures which he left on each of these occasions on the records of the University and that solitary volume of the library, which dying he left to the college here, are the only objects in existence which may be supposed to have received the impress of his gentle hand...
...devastating breath more merciless than that of the flames, the rough and searching blasts of our Boston east winds, found or developed in that young and devoted life the seeds of consumption, and before he had time to impress his character upon the community in which he had cast his lot, death took him off in the latter part of 1638. You know that by a will he had rendered it possible for the purpose of the infant Colony, which had been recorded two years before, to be carried out, - a will which no man has told...
...often asked - and frequently too, by honest inquirers - of what value is the study of elocution and what does it accomplish. Mr. Hayes, in his talk to students in Holden Chapel the other day, gave perhaps what should be a sufficient answer, viz.: the skill to so impress our matter that it shall go for what it is worth and be felt and understood. It is said that this is a very easy thing to do. Well, look about and see how few are able to do it. It is a lamentable fact that if one goes to a lecture...