Word: warnings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This advance into the great woods brought about the conflict with the French, who claimed the region by right of La Salle's discoveries. They advanced down the Alleghany region, building forts as they came, till in 1753 the governor of Virginia sent George Washington to warn them against further aggression. In the war which followed the individual history of Virginia becomes merged with that of the other colonies with whom she became leagued in the struggle...
...fact the public is beginning to feel very strongly the value of this branch of college work and to watch with great interest the intercollegiate contests. Yale realizes this, and her new Eating Club debates, and the recent defeat of Princeton warn Harvard to look to her laurels...
...United States, which has been only half aware that there was any Venezuela question, has suddenly been startled by an ultimate demand made upon the country with which we have the closest ties of interest and sympathy, and this coupled with an explicit threat of war. To warn the men of this University that any discussion or criticism of this position of our government can spring only from the lowest motives, and must instantly stop, involves such a novel idea of popular government and such a singular conception of patriotism that serious argument about it is almost impossible. For three...
...extended the realm of nature into the unseen universe. The Divine Comedy was not intended merely to alarm the sinner by the picture of Hell's horrors, nor to confirm the good by the picture of Heaven's delights. It was intended simply to instruct, to warn, and to guide man. Brevity of utterance, concise expression and directness are the characteristics of the style of the poem. The Divine Comedy is priceless, not only as a work of marvellous beauty, but as an era in the history of thought...
...team plays in secret, it will of course be necessary for their rivals to do the same. The 'varsity has need of all the time there is left before the Yale game to perfect its new plays, and the college must be patient. What we want to warn men here against is the possibility of falling into such a frame of mind that they may forget that the football team represents all Harvard and is not a sort of secret society. None of us care to have Harvard outdone in cheering at Springfield, but unless the men become slightly acquainted...