Word: choses
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Tuesday evening members of the Junior Class boarding at Memorial Hall chose Messrs. Lombard and Hawins as their directors. There have been thirty-seven applicants for board since January...
...same time, as somebody or other said, there was never a spot on earth so wicked that a man could not live a good life there if he wanted to; and there never was a place where manners were so horribly bad that a man who chose to be well-bred could-not succeed. I have seen one or two very well-behaved people from the far West...
...Freshman Debating Society chose its first ten on November 2, as follows: H. L. Bond, W. F. Gillett, A. L. Hall, H. B. Hart, C. A. Hobbs, D. W. Lord, D. Mould, Jr., H. M. Perry, J. Quincy, Jr., F. J. Ranlett...
...Volante, University of Chicago, has some doubt as to how to write our address; it hesitated between "Harvard, Mass." and "Harvard Institute, Cam., Mass.," but finally chose the latter. We ourselves would be contented with the simple "Cam., Mass...
...most beautiful and pathetic elegies in Oriental literature. Why did not Mr. Emerson expatiate on those three bright stars of the literary firmament, and why did he pass over with so little notice Omar Khayyam? Simply because, instead of dwelling on the lesser luminaries, he chose the sun, the brightest of them all, Hafiz. It was not his purpose in this simple essay to give us a complete compendium of Persian literature, embracing all the poets of any note, as Mr. Ticknor has done for Spanish literature. Had Mr. Ticknor, in an essay of this limit, omitted an obscure poet...