Word: entertain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...base-ball craze in Macon, Ga., has gone so far that the teachers in the schools entertain the pupils with anecdotes regarding the lives of members of the Detroit team. - Cincinnatti Enquirer...
...their rooms to seniors on class-day. Several cases have recently been brought to our notice where the courteous requests of seniors for the use of rooms have been flatly refused. We can find no excuse for such actions on the part of these students. In order to entertain the host of their friends on class-day and to make their guests regard class-day as a pleasure, not as a weary trial, seniors must have the use of many rooms. If these cannot be secured in the college buildings, the only remedy is to engage them outside...
...conviction in the premises would be that boating is to all other studies as 14 is to 7. As for the Yale tutors, the chances are that those level-headed devotees of knowledge on learning that "Bob" Cook is to be given a dinner in fourteen courses will merely entertain the impression that when their turn comes they will be asked to a stand-up lunch or an early tea with ice cream and sponge cake passed around later in the evening. President Dwight, having had his dinner with the alumni, does come within the scope of the present discussion...
...benefit of playing on their own grounds, and that as Princeton had come to New Haven to play Yale, last fall, it was simple justice for Yale to go to Princeton this year. The Yale men offer no objection to the first proposition, but say emphatically they will not entertain the second. Last year the Princeton faculty forbade the foot-ball team to play at the Polo Grounds in New York, or in fact anywhere, except on college grounds. As Yale held the championship, the game was of course played in New Haven. But the Yale men declare this...
Class Day, as the name implies, should be a day for the members of '86 to entertain their friends. There has been a very noticeable tendency in past years to convert this day into a general holiday for the public of all classes of Cambridge and Boston. That the many objectionable characters who have thronged the yard on Class Day evening should not be allowed among our relatives and friends, needs of course only to be asserted...