Word: hill
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...officers of the Christian Brethren for the next half-year are: President, W. D. Hyde, '79; Secretary, F. W. Baker, '81; Treasurer, W. B. Hill, '79; Librarian, G. W. Dickerman...
DEAR W -: I have been to my uncle's at Berry Hill, Hants, for the Christmas holidays, or you may be sure I should not have delayed so long in answering your last letter, and in thanking you for the Harvard papers you sent me. I read in them the account of last autumn's sports, but, to tell you frankly, I was surprised as much at the poor records as at the few entries. To think that only two contestants appeared for the half-mile run, for instance, - only two out of a thousand men at your University...
...critic in the Saturday Review little thought what distress he would cause among our "very English" students when he wrote the following about Professor Hill's Rhetoric: "Into the higher arts, whether of oratorical or literary expression, the author scarcely pretends to guide his pupils; and it is needless to say that American tastes in both departments differ so widely from those of the best English speakers and writers, that no aspirant to success in this country would look for instruction to a professor even of Harvard College...
BICYCLING.Suffolk B. C. - This organization attempted to hold its annual races at Chestnut Hill Reservoir on Saturday, December 14, but not a single entry was made and the races fell through...
...Hill was elected by acclamation Ivy Orator...