Word: loyally
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...sinking of a few second-class Spanish gunboats that brought the United States into prominence within the last few decades, but the immense influence which the country has exerted upon other nations. The American Revolution taught England how to treat her colonies, so that they are today most loyal to her. The Constitution has had a momentous influence upon every country in the world. Immediately after its framing, South and Central America and Mexico became republics, modelling their constitutions after that of this country. Another republican and spiritual influence upon foreign nations has been the formation of cosmopolitan clubs...
...Flower Stall" is good; the poem needs verbal revision. The sonnet entitled "Love and Fate" is worthy of praise for the correctness of its construction, the thought moving steadily and naturally to the culmination, and for the dignity of the language. A vigorous plea ("Yoke-fellows") for loyal service in the cause of the Ideal and a pithy, pleasing love-song ("My Absolute") conclude the poetical material of the number...
Tomorrow the morning service at Appleton Chapel will commemorate the birthday of Phillips Brooks, a loyal and distinguished son of Harvard who never fully outgrew his undergraduate days. During the years of preparation in the seminary and his early ministration in Philadelphia he constantly kept in touch with his friends in Cambridge and widened his acquaintance among the undergraduates who followed him. When he came to Boston as rector of Trinity Church his frequent visits to Appleton Chapel brought him in close touch with the students. The service tomorrow morning bears witness of the affection in which his memory...
...bore an active part and worthily represented the cause of the humanities to which his enlightening instruction gave a position of unique distinction. He gave his hearty support to measures directed to the moral well-being of the students. He was an earnest advocate of his convictions, and steadfastly loyal to his ideals; nor did the unpopularity of any policy cause him to abate his ardor in its defense. His intellectual, as his personal, sympathies were wide. His glad recognition and generous encouragement of merit endeared him to workers in many fields. He was a just censor, a wise counsellor...
...temper, not of the players but of the spectators. Extravagant publicity, distracting and confusing social influences, many of the evils of the mob spirit, are undeniably present. It is not so clearly demonstrable that the game, under present conditions of attendance, favors "in the mass of spectators a loyal life and a practical love of loyalty." This is Professor Royce's test of the real value of the game. To confute him would require considerable skill in what Daniel Webster once called "the arithmetic of Heaven." Meanwhile Professor Royce invites all who disagree with him to use their opportunities...