Word: call
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have been requested to ask all undergraduates who have not made out blanks for the Catalogue to call at the Secretary's office and fill out their blanks at once. It adds greatly to the convenience of both the Faculty and the students to have the Catalogue appear at an early date, and no one should thoughtlessly delay its publication...
...perfect society as a good binding beautifies and perfects a book, two things are indispensable, - money and culture. Let either be wanting, and your fine gentleman is an elegant adventurer, or a boorish millionnaire of the class which the experiences of our last war have led us to call shoddy. Neither of these characters is either admirable or respectable; and before any man determines that his life shall be that of a gentleman of leisure, he should assure himself that he is in every way capable of maintaining the position to which he proposes to lay claim...
...That by hard work we can enter a crew which will do us credit we do not doubt, but it is our firm conviction that without more enthusiasm and without the services of our best men, we stand little chance of winning back what the newspapers are pleased to call "our lost prestige...
...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...
...piece which particularly added to the credit of the club was the Serenade, by Storch, with its pathetic tenor solo, and humming accompaniment, rendered with such smoothness and accuracy as to call forth a demand for an encore...