Word: beare
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN, - You will bear me witness that I am not in the habit of reading a speech at the Commencement dinner; but on this exceptional occasion I propose to read part of an appropriate address which I have found written for me by another hand...
...down the Latin, and took up another book, and waited. Then I put that down and looked at her music, and touched the piano! How slowly the time went! How still the house was! I sat down again and waited; I walked around and waited. I could bear it no longer, but took my hat and left the house...
COLLEGE papers are apt to indulge freely in grumbling, and the proceedings of the Faculty usually have to bear rather a large share of it. But now, notwithstanding the aggravations of the weather and the approaching annuals, we find nothing to complain of, and rather think it fitting to make our bow and tend our thanks and appreciation to the members of the Faculty who have issued the list of examinations at so early and convenient a date. We must also notice the opportunity which has been afforded for changes in the Tabular View, which must be appreciated by those...
...favor on the students that would be highly appreciated. If in the limits of a single lecture it would be impossible to treat the history with enough fulness, it might be well to indicate the best sources for supplementary information, and to confine the lecture to such points as bear directly on the subject. If, we repeat, any one of our professors should kindly deliver such a lecture - and as long before the Annuals as convenient - we feel sure that the audience will be large, and that he would be heartily thanked by numbers of undergraduates...
...country, down in Washington; and then again he tries to convince me that he's just the man for assistant librarian; but I don't think he's got presence and majesty enough for that. Just bring the result of your long study and remarkable ability to bear on him. I have n't got time, just now, to figure up the precise value of your service to him, but - " I went into another room and closed the door...