Word: informativeness
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...seems but fair to inform those Freshmen who failed to make up "Classical Lectures" that the paper was not set nor the books marked by the last year's instructor, whose offer to do so was declined...
SINCE the beginning of the term I have received three invitations from University 5. Whenever I want to inform a friend of the fact I am in doubt as to the correct expression. Ought I to say that I have had three summons or three summonses? The notices on the bulletin boards seem to sanction the latter form. Then must I say that I am summoned or summonsed? If I have received three summonses, it is only consistent to say that I have been three times summonsed...
DEAR SIR: I am instructed by the Executive Committee of the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni in New York, to inform the members of the different chapters of the Phi Beta Kappa residing in and near New York, that applications for membership may be sent to the Secretary at the office of Davies & Work, 120 Broadway. You are requested to communicate this information to all members of the Society whom you may meet. A list of the officers of the Association from whom further information may be obtained is annexed...
...editors inform us that they
...paid and supported, not for his services, but for his presence..... He is a being creeping along the limits of animated and unanimated existence, and serving, like an oyster, as a middle link between plants and animals." I board at Memorial Hall; will not some one who boards outside inform me whether any specimens of these "gentlemen at large," with "meritorious wives and daughters," have come down to our time...