Word: commands
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...express. With them there is no shadow of turning, for they are founded on truth. You must master all the details of elocution, such as, standing, and I perceive that few of you know how to stand even, - enunciation and action before you can have your body at our command for the expression of your feelings. But this, in fact is all that elocution can teach you, to have your bodily means of expression entirely under the control of your will, - which is power...
...great university have today, for the first time in her history been conferred in the welcome vernacular. [Applause.] But sir, I know no higher duty at this time than the renewing of the heroic element exemplified in college life and character. When in 1775 the immortal Washington took command of the assembled forces of New England before the walls of the college, the instructors and students, exempt from the burdens of military life, repaired to the quieter precincts of old Concord, and the halls of learning became barracks for the patriotic soldiery of America. When rebellion threatened the disrupture...
...small reason for it now, when we consider how signal a mark our great mother University on the Cam has put upon this region about Boston harbor and its affluents. One of the first expeditions which the Pilgrims at Plymouth sent out, was one by boat under command of Miles Standish to explore the waters of Massachusetts Bay, as Boston harbor was then called. As they passed the islands, which then as now stand watch and ward over the entrance of this estuary of the Charles, they bestowed upon those islands a name which they still bear, that...
...conveying that truth to his fellow men. To do that he must free himself from all mannerisms which stand as obstacles between himself and the people he would reach. One of the most powerful weapons of the man who would be a leader in public affairs, is the command of his voice. We are repelled or attracted by the tones by which a speaker employs, and it is therefore of the utmost value to the acter that he is in control of the means by which he can conciliate and move his hearers. In a country like our own where...
...ground floor are four rooms, consisting of two parlors, a dining room and a bed room, which Captain Cowles will occupy. Upstairs there are eight bed rooms connecting with each other, and having windows which command a beautiful view of the river. Although well suited to the needs of a crew, the outside appearance of the quarters is not at all prepossessing, reminding one more of a common tenement house than anything else. Just below the quarters is the boat house. As I passed it the other day, two or three men were painting the roof of a brilliant coat...