Word: entertain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Class of '78 will entertain the Class of '79 at Commencement, in 9 Holworthy...
...HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 30. Yale University voted to-night to sustain E. P. Livingstone in his challenge to Goddard, Harvard's single sculler. Previously, Yale University Boat Club refused to entertain Goddard's challenge as to the University, and Livingstone's challenge is therefore personal. - Herald...
...familiar strains have set us in easy motion. The Spaniards have a proverb that 'leaving home is half the journey,' so much do they make of the start. But you are already on the threshold, and Harvard pilgrims, like those of Canterbury of long centuries ago, are quick to entertain themselves. Different men find many different attractions in a time like this, but I think we shall all of us agree that one of them, at least, is its evenness. The scales, elsewhere ascending and descending with great abruptness, here come to a quiet poise. We are from all sorts...
...Committee, at the request of the Corporation, have decided to give tickets to the Yard and to Memorial Hall to Seniors in other departments of the University, on condition of their paying five dollars, which is half the regular Senior assessment. The fear, which many persons entertain, that there will be a terrible crowd at all the exercises, seems to be unfounded. It is not likely that the graduating classes of the Bussey Institution and of the Dental School will flock to Cambridge in overwhelming numbers, and should large delegations come to Cambridge, they may be certain that the Yard...
...manifested an interest in her surroundings. "How insufferably dull her companion must be," I thought, "and how I could entertain her if I only might." My gaze was riveted upon the page before...