Word: grandeur
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THERE are pleasures in a Bowdoin prize. It gives the winner grandeur in the eyes of Freshmen, and a wonderful reputation among his maiden aunts and country cousins; and the money in these hard times is decidedly convenient in making one's cash account balance with remittances from home...
...Sumner, Curtis. W. W. Coolidge: The Fall of Babylon, Da Ponte. Donaldson: The Last Soliloquy of Dr. Faustus, Marlowe. Evans: Rebuke to Cowardly Lords in 1852, Tennyson. Hale: Recreation, Helps. Hyde: The Gifted, Carlyle. Mercer: Speech of Henry V. before Agincourt, Shakespeare. Perkins: The Cloud, Shelley. Poor: The True Grandeur of Nations, Sumner. E. Robinson: The Rights of an English Subject, Erskine. Sargent: A Legend of Bragance, Adelaide Procter. Swayze: Boston and the Old South, Phillips. C. L. Wells: Immediate Emancipation, Brougham...
...prayers? The English universities have kept a custom which originated in their Roman Catholic days, and are excusable for so doing; an American college, in adopting this custom without the least reason, would merely lay itself open to ridicule for its absurd anglomania. The affectation of talking about the "grandeur and solemnity" of the Latin service is not worthy of the Tablet's good sense...
...grandeur to display the greater might...
...risen grandeur spread...