Word: forth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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ARTICLE VIII. - SPECIAL MEETINGS.A special meeting of the Association shall be called whenever the President or the Executive Committee shall consider one expedient, or whenever the President or Vice-President shall be requested to call one by the written request of twenty-five members, setting forth the purposes thereof...
...chance of comparing their own records on that day with those of some of the upper classmen. Freshmen are apt to feel some reluctance to enter a race against other men who have been training - as Freshmen erroneously suppose - for some time. This special day's programme should draw forth many of the more timid men, and prepare the winners, at all events, for the following Saturday's competition...
...latest press metaphor is the following: "The Harvard boat-house vomited forth its new shell...
...within the precincts of that sacred University whence they derived their inspiration, and where, during a youth of high endeavor and unceasing industry and self-sacrifice, they laid sure and deep the foundations of that world-wide fame which now reflects such honor upon the University which sent them forth, I naturally am deeply moved...
...object of these words is not to find fault with the work of this year, but to show what another year may be made to bring forth. Mr. Child is beyond doubt in the right about the elocution question; but if he would make it clearly understood that good reading is a desideratum in his classes, and if the students would endeavor simply to pay attention and to be interested (if they did this they would be obliged to read well), then both the advantage and the enjoyment of the course would be doubled. It is somnambulistic and apathetic reading...