Word: sawed
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...clothes. He asks if Mr. Pontbicket had not gone to such and such a place that evening; if he did not sit in No. 13, second row, first gallery; and if his daughters had not been there with him. Pontbicket answers in the affirmative. It then develops that Dardard saw Mile. Pontbicket that evening, fell in love with her, and has come to ask for her hand at ten in the morning. Pontbicket threatens to kick Dardard out. But he is not to be put off, and, to conciliate the father, offers to buy 40,000 pairs of his gloves...
...although the game was not close enough to give the fumbles their full significance. Pennsylvania's touchdown was the direct result of a fumble, coupled with offside play, and on three occasions Harvard lost chances to score in the same way. Carelessness was another noticeable fault. When the team saw that it had almost a sure victory it let up in its efforts and although very slightly, enough to show its effects. Harvard was penalized twice, and although this seems a small number it was sufficient to cause a temporary demoralization...
...this time that Ruskin came forward with his first volume "in defence of the new landscape art in general, and of the art of Turner in particular." Ruskin saw that "what Turner sought was the ideal truth of nature, that he portrayed Nature in her 'supreme moments,' in her finest forms and in her vital energy,-Nature as she was revealed to a discriminating eye, and to the poetic imagination." With this feeling he began his essay on 'Modern Painters' that grew to five volumes...
...Emil G. Hirsch of Chicago delivered a sermon last night in Appleton Chapel on "The Need of Man for Religion and the Spiritual Life." Dr. Hirsch said, in part, that the ancient Hebrewa were deeply stirred by the phenomena of nature which they saw about them. The constant struggle for existence made them feel keenly the blessings sent through the rain and the growing crops, and they were not slow to grasp the close analogy between the physical and the spiritual. They realized fully that just as real hunger is essential to a right appreciation of God's bounty...
...though this was impossible, the profound interest of his character and his high example could and should be perpetuated. And the Phillips Brooks House was for this purpose. To be a teacher was the supreme ambition of Phillips Brooks's life. When President Eliot first saw him he was coming down the steps of Professor Walker's house, after having been told that his success as a teacher was hopeless. Then he became a minister, and for fourteen years worked assiduously in his profession. Owing to his steadfast stand for the Union, in Philadelphia, he was invited to speak...