Word: choses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very nearly nineteen miles, and the riding time of the hares was 1 hour 26 1/2 minutes, being remarkably good considering the high west wind that blew against them all the outward course. The riding time of the first hound was 1 hour, 28 minutes, 3 seconds. The hares chose good roads, and so great was the success of the run that the management of the club feel encouraged to announce another for next Thursday afternoon. All riders connected with the university are invited to participate, whether they be members of the club...
...back, which several members enjoyed. Today the club proposes to have a hare and hounds run. All those who took part in a similar run two years ago will remember the enjoyment and excitement of the day, which was only dampened by the difficult roads the hares chose. This trouble has been remedied this year by requiring the hares to select good roads. All who can should participate in this...
...Johnson, a prominent Democratic editor and politician, and a nephew of Gen. Albert Sydney Johnson, the Confederate general who fell at Shiloh. His piece was entitled "The Lost Cause," and was an eloquent, highly rhetorical, and truly Southern defence of his people. Mr. Leonard is a New Yorker, and chose for his subject "William Lloyd Garrison," his oration being a review of the same question from a Northern stand-point and a vindication of the anti-slavery movement. Fifteen years after the bitter conflict has closed students from the opposing sections defend, on a New England college platform, each...
Oscar Wilde lectured in New York last night to a large and fashionable audience at Chickering Hall. He was dressed in a black dress coat, white vest, an extremely low cut shirt, with flowing white silk cravat, black knee breeches, crown stockings and slippers. He chose as his subject "The English Renaissance," which he said was the work of the aesthetes. In conclusion he said: "You have all heard of those two flowers dear to the aesthete's heart, the rose and the lily. But we do not love them for the reason given by Mr. Gilbert...
...these repairs had been paid out of this surplus fund, the price for board would have averaged about $4.70 per week for the whole term; whereas if they had been paid out of the money received last term, it would have averaged about $5.00 per week. The auditor chose the former plan for paying them, while the bursar preferred the latter. So the whole matter seems to be a misunderstanding between the auditor and bursar...