Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...delivery of the Dudleian lecture this year has been offered by the committee to Rev. W. E. Griffis D. D., of Boston, although as yet no official acceptance of the offer has been received. We give in another column the extract from the will of the founder stating what shall be the subject of the fourth lecture. Rev. Mr. Griffis is a man of considerable prominence in his church and well able to treat this subject...
Below is quoted an extract from a recent number of the Law Quarterly Review, the leading English Law Review. It contains a compliment to the Harvard Law Review and also to two of our professors, which surely deserves publicity in Cambridge...
...house, where refreshments - wine, cake, and lemonade - were served. The afternoon was spent in drinking punch and dancing on the green. In 1826 the graduating class was escorted to its exercises by the famous Harvard Washington Corps. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes was poet of the class '29. The following extract from a diary is of interest...
...pardon of the Yale News, for taking the following extract from its columns...
...that ever lived. Though living and writing in the seventeenth century, he was possessed with nineteenth century ideas and some of the forms which he sought to introduce into the schools of his time, are still urged by progressive educators, though only recently finding favor and adoption. The following extract from the English version of the proposal of these celebrations gives one a glimpse of his work and character: "Born in Moravia, working amongst Czechs, Germans, English, Dutch, Swedes and Hungarians, with friends in France and Italy, he (Comenius) has won, by his thought, as well as by his life...