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Word: thought (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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...face value, the result of Saturday's game was disappointing. There were not a few predictions that the University team would win by two touchdowns, and it was considered doubtful our opponents would score; the thought of being obliged to convert certain defeat into a tie by a long run would have found few supporters. Such is the optimism which will persistently put in appearance when a good start has been made and reckons without its host to its own misfortune. It is to be hoped that this misfortune has amounted to destruction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIGNIFICANCE OF NAVY GAME. | 10/26/1908 | See Source »

...come in contact with the literary leaders of the last generation; with most that is notable in the circles of literature, politics, and the Fine Arts abroad; with whatever forces have worked for beauty and dignity in every age. He has been an epitome of the world's best thought, brought to our own doors and opened for our daily use. Let others describe him more fully in his personal charm and in his relations with the larger world. I, though with reluctance, confine myself to the admiring gratitude given him by the College which he served. GEORGE HERBERT PALMER...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHARLES ELIOT NORTON '46 | 10/23/1908 | See Source »

...very first thought which students in Fine Arts 4 heard Professor Norton express was "excellence"; for he used to preface his lectures with a quotation beginning "A nation once so excellent." And this idea of excellence, of which so few of the thousands of his hearers had any true conception before they listened to his talk, was the keynote of most that he had to say to them. The course professed to be about Greek art, and certainly nobody was better qualified to illuminate that subject; but it was wonderful to observe how he showed that such a seemingly dead...

Author: By M. H. Morgan., | Title: PROF. NORTON'S FUNERAL | 10/23/1908 | See Source »

...CRIMSON is glad to welcome the Council to its high position in undergraduate institutions--a position which will require broad conservatism and a great amount of thought to bring it to its proper and most effective basis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COUNCIL COMPLETE. | 10/15/1908 | See Source »

...William Channing Gannett, by inheritance and nurture a humanitarian preacher and poet, whose inevitable themes are nature's miracles, the thought of God, faithfulness, and moral beauty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Honorary Degrees of 1908 Commencement | 9/29/1908 | See Source »

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