Word: chaired
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...seen still other slurs, many of which were as untrue and pointless as are those which have been cited. What has been said on the other side is not much, but it is to the point. Discussing the impertinence of reporters, George William Curtis, writing in the Easy Chair of Harper's Magazine, well says...
Crash! Diana's chair was on its back and she was out of the room...
...permanent influence over this College than any preceding class for many a long year. As a prominent professor, who had the best opportunities for observation, remarked, "It was a class composed of men who were either very good or very poor; there were few mediocre men." The editor's chair is not the speaker's stand, or we should be tempted into speaking perhaps with unbecoming warmth of our departed friends' many excellences. But we cannot but remember that it was the class which threw so much life into some of the highest literary courses in college. If we remember...
...Barbour, formerly of Bangor Theological Seminary, has been elected Professor of Theology; Dr. R. W. Dale of Birmingham, Eng., is to deliver the Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching, next year; and Mr. Franklin B. Dexter has been selected to fill the newly endowed Chair of American History...
...when the aforesaid proctor determines to take his "constitutional" in said boots in said examination-room. A piteous story might be told of a man who by accident has to sit within two feet of damp, cold walls (lower Mass. last Monday, for example) in a rheumatic, backless chair, and listen to the warlike tread of the officious guardian proctor, all the while attempting - can he be blamed if he fails? - to calmly reason on the probable result of increasing population and capital, on rents, profits, and wages. With stoical indifference we accept the inevitable...