Word: tells
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fight it to a finish. New York will be, every growing city in the land--and more and more ours is getting to be a land of cities--will be what the young men of today make up their minds they shall be. And those twenty years--will tell the story of whether we shall last as a people, or not. Noblesse oblige! To those who have had the advantage of a college education falls the duty of leadership. Which...
...Shulamite" is Deborah Krillet, the young wife of a sternly religious old Boer farmer, who demands patriarchal obedience from his household and enforces it with the lash. Deborah escapes a flogging with a lie concerning her condition. Later she is forced to tell the truth, and her husband resolves to kill her. The young English overseer, who is in love with Deborah, saves her by shooting her husband. In the last act, in spite of a wife in England, and a too curious relative of the dead man, matters are straightened out and the curtain falls upon a happy future...
...College life, and getting what he wants from the University; and I shall be grateful to any one who will show me any way of furthering this desire. The Committee of Advisers will do what it can; but we shall not fully succeed unless the students come and tell us what they want personally...
...course of his lecture Mr. Underwood will describe the life of the Maine lumbermen in their winter camps and of the river drivers in the spring, and will tell the story of a bear cub, caught near one of the lumber camps...
...here, said Dean Hurlbut, to tell you about your adjustment to the Office. The step you are now taking is from boyhood to manhood. Our College standard is the standard of the world. You must lay your foundations in everything first. After you have done your academic work, Harvard College calls upon you for service. One of the hardest things for a man is to preserve his balance when demands are made upon him. Ask yourself what Harvard College is. It is the result of self-sacrifice for the past 270 years. I particularly want you to remember how your...