Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...same time, most of your friends will join them, and if you do not, you will feel as if you were out of the world, - which is not at all the same thing as feeling as if you were in heaven. In my time these societies were great political powers. When any class elections came, they would divide the various offices between themselves, and walk off with them, regardless of opposition. This fact gave them a reason for existence which made them, though they were not very entertaining, very popular indeed. I am told, however, that their days of power...
...will not - I must beg of you to politely decline them. They can't help you, and they may hurt you; for membership involves a habit of constant prevarication, which is anything but salutary in its effects. At the same time these secret organizations have a certain amount of power; and as long as they do not interfere with you, you had better not interfere with them, - technical interference being the public mention of their existence. If they openly offend you, of course you must not calmly submit; but my experience of them is that they do not often attack...
...petition is now before the Massachusetts Legislature asking that power be granted to the trustees of Wellesley College to confer degrees. It is claimed that this power is necessary to place the college on an equal footing with similar ones. Dr. Clark, in favoring the petition, said "that it was the intention of the trustees that no graduate should receive a degree unless having attained the highest standard of any college in the land...
...used by Blakey as a model for the construction of the other boat, a point which doubles its value. Such a gift from the graduates will not prove undeserved. Our crew are of good promise; and they are now working faithfully and doing all in their power to insure success. That their efforts will be rendered useless by a tardiness of support, through the negligence of their friends, is a danger against which the graduates, on their side, must jealously guard; and we therefore earnestly call upon them to come forward, now, in good season, and do the part which...
...where Nature put them, if they have been brought here merely to be imbedded again by the action of the elements. Municipal laws allow a person twenty-four hours in which to have the sidewalks belonging to him cleared. It would be well for us, apparently, if some higher power looked after those whose business it is to see that we have terra firma to walk...