Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...concert of the Wesleyan Glee Club, yesterday evening, by far the best song was the Maid of Athens, solo and chorus. The yodels were not as good as we had hoped to hear...
...charged with being Americanisms, have been proved to be English, and good, old English at that. Our use of the words "guess" and "well" is one of the most familiar of these. Indeed, we must not look to London (pace Mr. Richard Grant White) if we would like to hear English as she is spoke by those who know how to speak her. The Irishman who tells you that the church was "thronged" at early mass, or that he "wrought" two hours for you, uses finer Saxon than the dwellers on the Thames who write on his "honour" that...
...status of the Hamilton nine must be on a par with Union if this single sentence from the Era is true. It continues: "Hamilton men claim that at least four of their nine are straight college men." With the next number of the Era we may expect to hear further particulars about some of the other nines...
...writer from Paris says: "I hear ex Governor Leland Stanford of California, who has been here for some time past and who is in very bad health, has decided to give several millions of dollars out of his immense fortune to the founding of a university for the sons of working men. This institution will probably be located in the state of California, and will be named after Governor Stanford's only son, who died recently in Florence of malarial fever...
...comments. The editorial on the freshman game redeems Yale from the charge that that college cannot produce anything humorous. We feel pained to learn that the "annual and alwaysto-be-expected streak of Harvard meanness" has again cropped out, especially as the News disapproves, and are really glad to hear that the Courant decides that Yale's claim in regard to the first freshman game is valid. Strange as it may seem, we do not recollect that "Yale has yielded more than once to equally foolish and unfair demands from her rival." We venture a smile at the Courant...