Word: friend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...groups of men working around their shafts. Two of the "Company" were at work down below, and two were turning the cranks of the rough wooden windlass. They were shaggy, powerful, good-natured fellows, who shook me warmly by the hand when they learned that I was an old friend of their "pard's," and treated Elsie as if she were a goddess just stepped down from the clouds...
...James Walker, president of the university from 1853 to 1860, will be dedicated next Sunday in the Harvard Church in Charlestown of which he was pastor for more than twenty years - 1818-1839. The Rev. William Orne White (1840) son of Judge Daniel Appleton White (1797), an intimate friend of President Walker, will make the principal address. President Eliot will also speak. The choir of Appleton Chapel will perform the choral part of the service. All persons who are interested are cordially invited to be present at the service which will begin at 10.30 o'clock...
...librarian of Harvard University, in acknowledging the receipt of a copy of Bent's "Short Sayings of Great Men," says, "I am glad to have at my elbow in my own study - as I have had for some days - in a convenient nook in my official den, another good friend of a book, to make me seem to others wiser than I am, and to show me to myself more deficient than ever...
...source, that it seems a pity not to bring them into general notice. It says: "Every one who saw the game knows how little ground there is for their reiterated charges of roughness, ungentlemanliness, to say nothing of stronger expressions which they have found convenient to use." Our Yale friend seems to have lost sight of an important fact, viz: that Harvard College represented not more than two-thirds of the spectators; and right here it would be well to remark that it is not the college which follows blindly whatever sentiment her papers chance to adopt, as the Record...
...Upon this motion, the gentleman in the chair (Judge Hoar) will rise and say: 'It gives me uncommon pleasure to listen to the remarks and the motion of my friend on the left. The State, the college and the community owe him a debt of gratitude. It gives me pleasure to listen to the motion and the remarks, and I trust the proposition will meet with general approval...