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Word: employer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...brutish instincts by assaulting our man, Scamp, who, in some way, had got behind Harvard's goal posts and was waiting there for Fill-full to kick the ball to him, so that he could get a touch-down, - a very pretty little play which our fellows constantly employ with great effect, - but the minute Blazes discovered him, he rushed at him, grabbed him by the head, almost breaking the poor fellow's neck, and threw him back on side as if he had been a dead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTER | 11/26/1880 | See Source »

...when recitations are held so far away as this, or at the Zoological Museum, due notice ought to be given if the instructors intend beforehand to be absent. But they are not content with letting us find out for ourselves that there is to be no recitation. They even employ a person to call the roll in their absence, and then we are made responsible for what we have not missed. The person thus employed, when questioned, said that he thought it was customary, and if not, that it ought to be. This inconvenience surely merits the attention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/20/1880 | See Source »

...equivalent is offered, and a degree is conferred on those only who have followed the beaten track. Hebrew, which we might expect to have thoroughly taught in a department where a competent knowledge of the Bible is the foundation-stone, is undoubtedly best known by Jewish scholars. To employ one of these in teaching would be carrying out the unsectarian principles of the School to the letter; but, as far as we know, such a step has never been thought of by the Faculty. The general impression is that a Divinity School cannot be unsectarian, and the failure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/20/1880 | See Source »

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