Word: buckham
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...idea of this communication is worth notice, however. While agreeing with the author of last week's article in condemning the violence of President Buckham's letter, the anonymous writer thinks that the dignity of the President of a University demands an answer characterized with something besides "flippancy" and "pertness...
PRESIDENT BUCKHAM ON BOAT-RACING. - To the Editor of the Independent: You ask why the University of Vermont was not represented at the Saratoga regatta. It certainly was not for the lack of facilities for training, for we have, as you suggest, a beautiful lake on one side of us, and a beautiful river on another side. Neither was it for lack of manliness in our men. The University was "represented" in almost every great battle of the Rebellion, from Bull Run to Petersburg, having sent to the field a larger number, in proportion to its total roll, than...
...BUCKHAM...
...expression, "Mrs. Morrissey and other high-bred* dames," besides being quite neat, is exceedingly flattering to Mrs. M., and although I have known of Mrs. Morrissey only as the wife of a former notorious rough, still I suppose if Mr. Buckham chooses to call her a "high-bred dame" it is perfectly correct. The gentleman, however, need have no fear that the high-bred dames, Mrs. Morrissey included, would ever so far forget themselves as to be induced, by the entrance of his crew, to do such an utterly rash and absurd thing as to bet on them...
...Buckham will allow that at this point he had a severe struggle with a pun, and that he meant "hybrid" to be understood for "high-bred," all remarks concerning the expression will be retracted...