Word: commandeering
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...most wearisome prolongations of debate. He has never left a doubt in any mind of his absolute devotion to the good of the University, of his high sense of public duty as the administrator of a great trust, or of his unstinted use of every power at his command to discharge that duty efficiently...
...first team had comparatively little opportunity to show their ability in fielding. Of the infield, the work of Cook and Whittemore was sharp and clean. Stevenson was weak in throwing. Dickinson accepted all his chances. Highlands pitched the first part of the game and showed better command than in the previous practice. O'Malley supported him well until compelled to retire on account of an injury to his hand. Morton took his place. The batting of the first nine was weak, Gonterman and Cook being the only men who hit the ball at all hard. The baserunning was good, though...
...into all his works. All his figures are of a somewhat gloomy type, but all are strong and majestic. He had none of the gentler or finer qualities essential to the painter, for he was not a painter, as he himself said, but a sculptor. He had a great command of line and was probably the most wonderful draughtsman that ever lived. His subjects are almost all religious. He had many followers but none of them could give what Michael Angelo did, that is the imprint of a strong individuality, and accordingly none of them amounted to much...
...thought of the people. Every person was an art critic, for all the churches were art schools. Through this whole period of the Renaissance the church was always the greatest patron of art, and three-fourths of all the paintings of the time was done for, and at the command of, the church...
...Academy of Natural Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania is preparing to make an expedition to Labrador. Mr. Hite, who is connected with the Zoological Department of the university, and who was naturalist on the Peary Relief Expedition is the leader, and Dr. Wetheril is second in command. The main object of the expedition is to see and locate the Grand Falls of Labrador, which are said to be the largest in the world, and which only four white men are known to have visited. Another object of the trip is to gather collections of the fauna and flora...