Word: give
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...During the vacation the College Glee Club will give concerts in several towns in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts...
THURSDAY evening Professor Trowbridge delivered the fifth of the Natural History lectures at the Theatre on "Unseen Motion." The audience was the largest thus far, and the experiments were very interesting. We hope that the Natural History Society will give us another course next year...
...course it must be admitted that there is room for difference of opinion on such a point, and my view of the matter differs from theirs. If the likenesses were grotesque burlesques of the features represented, or if the texts placed under the pictures could in any way give offence to the persons whose faces are drawn, I can understand very well that objections might be made on the score of taste. But in these matters care seems to have been taken, and nothing has so far appeared that seems to me even of questionable taste...
...will be remembered that it was only after some hesitation that the Faculty decided to give voluntary attendance upon recitations another year's trial with the present Senior class. It was hoped that the class would appreciate the fact that the system is as yet an experiment, and would do nothing to embarrass its final adoption. These anticipations, we are informed by the Dean, have not been realized. As far as can be judged by the returns up to the present time, the system has this year been used with much more license than it was last year...
...gratification of his taste to more recent productions, but has dipped into the pastoral and the chivalric romances of the seventeenth century, one of the few interesting features of that dreary region lies in the opportunities for contrasting the behavior of the lovers with that which novel-writers nowadays give to their heroes. On marking the difference, one involuntarily feels almost proud of his century for being in this particular a little less ridiculous than bygone times, although it may outrun them in a thousand other absurdities. To whatever quality it may be due, whether to common-sense, or lack...