Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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PROFESSOR. How did Mr. Webster begin his celebrated second speech on Mr. Foote's resolution...
...contempt. Now I am not particularly troubled because the man next door keeps a very large dog. If he enjoys it, and the raw meat is not too expensive, I am not concerned. But when that dog bowls in loud and dismal tones late into the night, I begin to wish him in his native kennel. I never call upon this neighbor of mine, for his animal is very fierce, and always unchained...
...sixth, after the Bostons had been retired for two runs, the Harvards went in, and, by a little fumbling on the part of their opponents, aided also by White's two-base hit to centre, secured two runs. Thus the game was still a tie at the beginning of the seventh inning. But now the professionals begin to realize their danger, and, bending to their work, succeed for the first time in making any headway against Hooper. In the eighth inning several base-hits in succession are made, and four of six runs earned. TWO "whitewashes" close the game, though...
...Corporation has granted Nos. 29, 30, 31, and 32 Hollis to be used as society rooms by the II H. The alteration of the rooms will begin immediately after Commencement...
Such literary formulae may be of great convenience to editors and reporters; but after they have been learned by the reading public, they begin to lose, in a large degree, their effect. If an item of intelligence is worth mentioning at all (and, by the way, the fact of such worthiness should be more fully established than is generally the case), it deserves a distinct and appropriate description, and not one made up of cast-off metaphors and worn-out expressions that have already served to describe similar occasions, time out of mind...