Word: attaining
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...that served as in the case of Phillips Brooks to hide the deep reserve of his inner nature. Dr. Everett was not a great administrator nor an organizer of especial ability, but it was in his power to reach heights of thought and inspiration to which ordinary men cannot attain. The ease with which he treated the most profound subjects showed how thoroughly he was at home where others scarcely dared to come...
...growing crops, and they were not slow to grasp the close analogy between the physical and the spiritual. They realized fully that just as real hunger is essential to a right appreciation of God's bounty, so a longing for spiritual truth must exist, if we wish to attain the highest things of this world...
...tall, heavily-built man with a style much resembling that of Willis of the Boston team. He has fair speed, but is not steady. MacDonald has steadiness, good control, and a quick curve, but is handicapped by a very short waist which renders it difficult for him to attain high speed. Dudley is one of the hardest workers on the squad and has improved steadily. He has fair speed and good control, but has difficulty with his curved balls. Winsor has fair control and shows good promise. Of the eligible Freshmen, Stillman and Kernan have been doing the best work...
...first scholarship ever bequested to Harvard was founded in 1643, by Lady Ann Mowlson, of London, by gift of a hundred pounds, "to be and to remain a perpetual stipend for the maintenance of some poor scholar until such time as such scholar doth attain the degree of a Master of Arts." This is unquestionably the oldest foundation of the kind in this country...