Word: smallness
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...SMALL card is about to be issued by the S. Paul's Society, giving the dates of the business meetings and the occasional services, as well as when and by whom the Lenten lecture will be given. There will be Litany services every evening during Lent at their rooms, No. 17 Grays...
...Hartford on Thursday, February 19. Representatives were present from fourteen colleges: Amherst, Brown, Bowdoin, Cornell, Columbia, Hamilton, Lafayette, Princeton, Rutgers, Syracuse University, Trinity, Williams, Wesleyan, and the University of the City of New York. Colonel Higginson addressed the convention, strongly advocating the proposed plan of literary contests, and advising small beginnings and humble aims. Mr. C. D. Warner and Mark Twain were both present as supporters, and each made an address. A constitution was drawn up to go into effect upon its adoption by five different colleges. The time and place suggested for the opening contest was New York City...
Phonography consists of signs for the consonants of the greatest possible mathematical simplicity, and for the vowels of small dots and dashes attached to the consonant signs. The advantage of these signs is that, by their combination, a clear form of the word is presented and taken in at once by the eye, without being separated into its different parts, any more than the ticks of the telegraphic-sounder in expressing a word are separated by a practised ear. The signs are combined according to easily understood principles, and abbreviations, such as small circles and hooks, are added...
...Prooemium. Harvardinus; the member of a gens of considerable local reputation; nearly allied to the Bavii; at enmity with Antonius Collis. Cf. Rat. Y I. C. I small print...
...such be oratory, - an art content with small beginnings, thriving on the hard lessons of blunders and mistakes, - the sooner in life these rudimentary lessons are given, the better for all concerned. Could Harvard act on this principle she might have a chance of escaping such criticism as the following on the Commencement speakers of a few years...