Word: give
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...anonymous books under such titles in the alphabetical catalogue as will give some idea of their contents. If one wants a book on chess, he would hardly think of turning to the word "easy," yet there is the book, because the title runs: "An Easy Introduction...
...noun summons is derived from the French semonce, an invitation to a ceremony, - a peculiarly happy derivation in view of its present use. The verb to summon (which in England, by the way, is always pronounced summonce) is derived from the French semoncer, to reprimand, to lecture, to give any one a talking...
...meal, and at the next the probable course of Mukhtar Pasha. They keep a war-map at the table for reference. I can overhear every word they say, though there are two or three tables between us. Their violent gestures and reckless use of knives and forks may give force to their arguments, but they have the additional effect of entirely destroying my appetite...
...another column. To this list Seventy-Eight points with complacent pride. Class dissension has vanished into thin air. Seventy-Eight, in unison and peace, restores dear, happy Class Day at Harvard, and good-will reigns supreme. Of the fifteen officers, eight were unanimously elected by acclamation; the seven others give universal satisfaction. The harmonious, open election has exemplified the high principle that the interests of the Class are superior to the interests of societies. For the service that Seventy-Eight has done in thus firmly re-establishing Class Day, she deserves the thanks, not only of those connected with...
...long time there has been need of a handbook which should give to visitors information concerning the various College buildings and the objects of interest in Cambridge. The students, too, have felt the need of such a book, and it gives us pleasure to announce that Messrs. Moses King and Thomas P. Ivy, of the class of '81, will issue, about the first of January, "Harvard and its Surroundings," a book modelled after "Alden's Sixpenny Guide to Oxford." This book will contain about sixty pages of reading matter and fifty heliotypes and woodcuts, including views of all the College...