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Word: accomplishing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...public affairs, and indeed where men are sometimes drawn into a political career almost against their will, the study of delivery becomes of the highest importance. It is often asked - and frequently too, by honest inquirers - of what value is the study of elocution and what does it accomplish. Mr. Hayes, in his talk to students in Holden Chapel the other day, gave perhaps what should be a sufficient answer, viz.: the skill to so impress our matter that it shall go for what it is worth and be felt and understood. It is said that this is a very...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/14/1886 | See Source »

Theme I will be due on Tuesday, October 12. It must be deposited in the wooden box in Sever 3, before 4 o'clock. Subjects: 1. A Significant Incident of my Life; 2. Why I came to College; 3. What I Hope to Accomplish in Life; or, in brief, any topic of a simply personal nature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 10/11/1886 | See Source »

Theme I will be due on Tuesday, October 12. It must be deposited in the wooden box in Sever 3, before 4 o'clock. Subjects: 1. A Significant Incident of my Life; 2. Why I came to College; 3. What I Hope to Accomplish in Life; or, in brief, any topic of a simply personal nature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 10/2/1886 | See Source »

...years ago the Princeton nine was defeated in a 13 inning game. Yesterday it took 14 innings to accomplish the same result...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Tables Turned. | 6/1/1886 | See Source »

...will soon become conscious of the confusing complexity and many-sidedness of life and its occupations. He will find himself surrounded by such a mass of things which by some desire he is impelled to do, that the truth is soon forced upon him that he cannot hope to accomplish them all, but must pick and choose, and be content with the accomplishment of the most important of them. This is apropos of the choice of electives. The same principle is at work in both cases. We find ourselves placed before a distracting labyrinth of knowledge, and the command given...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/18/1886 | See Source »

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