Word: phrase
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...England, exists simply for the cultivation of theology as a science. All these institutions . . . exist for the much more practical purpose of training ministers, and most of them ministers for particular denominations. . . . We are sure President Eliot did not intend to be vague or ambiguous when he used the phrase 'theological teaching of a perfectly unsectarian character.' But we are also sure that he would find it difficult now to tell us what such teaching is. We may, therefore, safely set down the Harvard Divinity School as necessarily denominational in its practical workings, whatever character its managers may seek...
DEAR young friends, (for you are the Crimson's friends, are n't you?) we wish at once to take you in, in the kindly and Samaritan sense of the phrase, - to be meat and drink, board and lodging, to you; to be your "guide, philosopher, and friend," your vade mecum. I offer you a few suggestions, - suggestions merely; for the editors of the Crimson are too intelligent and gentlemanly a body not to be alive to the fact that a Freshman knows everything, and that it would be decidedly presumptuous for any one who has passed one or more...
...subject of scholarships is treated by President Eliot in his late Report in a reasonable and comprehensive spirit, which - as the common phrase goes - leaves little to be desired. That something, nevertheless, remains unsaid, is the opinion of thoughtful persons whose attention has been directed to this subject. For while it is a matter for congratulation that poverty, when it can be confessed and proved, need not bar Harvard to a fairly good scholar, it is still to be regretted that necessitous parties, who are unwilling to proclaim their condition, are tempted to seek the cheaper colleges...
...phrase the black-robed conclave chose...
...Senator Bayard said that the man who made the phrase 'Pleasures that come unlooked for are twice welcome,' was never called upon suddenly to make an after-dinner speech. His steps had been bent thither by invitation of one of the societies, before whom on the morrow he might perhaps say something in response to the heavy idea of the toast. If pleasures unexpected were twice welcome, so indeed were distinctions and honors, and of them he had just tasted. Coming there, an interested and sympathetic auditor of their exercises, he did not know that an honored degree...