Word: give
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Pierian Sodality and the Glee Club will give their concert at Lyceum Hall on next Wednesday evening, March 18. Tickets are for sale at the bookstores...
...sentiments expressed in the above-mentioned article should exist among Harvard men. How can we wonder at the rapid progress of irreverence among young Americans! With what justice can we complain of the ignorant foreign population, by whose voice our great cities are governed, when our educated young men give utterance to such thoughts...
...FRIEND has taken the trouble to send us an extract from the New York Journal of Commerce which denounces college boat races as being a nucleus of blacklegs, betting, and every instrument of Satan to give young men "their first lessons in the evil world." The article, as the writer says, was written under the impressions made while belated at Springfield, and suffering from the bad digestion of a Massasoit pot-pourri meal. This accounts for the gloomy view taken; but as regards the expressed opinion that races would be better rowed at home, and "subject to the inspection...
...COMPLAINT has been made to us which would occupy in its full statement more space than we can give. The subject of it, however, may be given in a few words. Some ladies, in the role of visitors in Cambridge, knocked at a student's door, and to the repeated summons of "Come in!" only knocked again, when they were finally greeted with an oath. It is perfectly clear to all that swearing is a vulgar and useless habit, and we are sorry that one of our number has been betrayed into it, especially before ladies; and we hope that...
...which they may be freed from the rule of political rings. Within five months more than one hundred and sixty men will be graduated from Harvard College and will be scattered throughout the country. Let these men employ the knowledge obtained here for the public good. Let them give time and thought and strength to the advancement of the welfare of their country. Let them resist strongly all political corruption, and then, and not till then, may we hope to see our country delivered from the hands of political intriguers and petty office-seekers...