Word: impression
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...purpose of this society is "to unite men of various views and faiths in a mutual interchange of religious thought and a common search for truth; to develop and impress the idea of the value of the religious element in character and action, and thus to increase in its members that ethical enthusiasm and purpose which is the result alike of intellectual breadth and moral earnestness...
...better form, were calmer and more argumentative. Yale's argument showed a very great study of facts, although the bearing of the latter on the question was not always clearly shown. Still the argument was plausible. The Harvard speakers cited authorities more carefully, but their facts did not impress their hearers as strongly...
...club was formed "to impress upon the students of Harvard University the need of Civil Service Reform, and to extend their knowledge of the principles and methods by which this reform can be accomplished...
...result, but do not place a just value on the means by which such a result is obtained. Daniel Webster did not become great by merely imitating some one else. He had great gifts of a certain kind, and used them to the full; but the power to impress other men does not depend on girth, or stature, or avoirdupois. Napoleon and Nelson, Garrick and Kean, were little men, yet did not their individualities find suitable means of expression, each in its proper fashion? Just so may that of every other man if he only uses the means with which...
...varsity football team leave the square this afternoon at three o'clock to take the train for New York for the game with Cornell. We feel that the students have every confidence in the team, and we suggest that they impress this fact upon Captain Waters and his men by sending them off today with a series of rousing cheers. With the beginning of this month the time between us and the great contest takes a long jump and we seem very much nearer to it than we did on the last day of October. It is a question...