Word: join
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...some uncontrollable feeling of remorse, and, like that remarkable misanthrope, Timon of Athens, seek the woods, there may be enjoyment there, surrounded by all the beauties of nature, and he may make friends of these, and pass a pleasant existence. But surrounded by a crowd, as here, ready to join in adding to the comfort and pleasure of all their friends, it is an unnecessary freak, and only the outcropping of an intense egotism and vanity, adopted for the sake of attaining a notoriety, and adds nothing to him in the estimation of his classmates. The dignity of this self...
...join the two words with an "and" because we intend to consider books in this article in their relation to buyer and seller instead of to author. In these days, when printing has almost won the position of a fine art, or at least of a useful art into which the element of taste largely enters, we not only have a right to demand of the author that he give us something worth writing, but of the printer that, when written, it shall be put into a readable and attractive form. The printer who does this the most successfully...
...first meeting last Monday evening. The following officers were elected: President, Professor Ferdinand Bocher; Vice-Presidents, F. W. Elwood and W. Lowery; Secretary, G. A. C. Bendelari; Treasurer, L. C. Josephs. The membership will be limited to thirty. This number is not yet completed, and any one wishing to join should hand in his name to one of the above officers before Monday evening, November 10. The club is open to students in every department of the University, and will hold meetings every Monday, at 20 College House...
...undergraduates who wish to join the "Verein" should make application before next Thursday evening, as the list of membership will then be closed...
...have heard much dissatisfaction expressed, lately, at the refusal of our foot-ball players to join Yale, Columbia, Rutgers, and Princeton in a convention for the purpose of forming an intercollegiate association and a fixed code of laws. It certainly does not seem natural for Harvard to keep aloof from anything of this kind, and while we think our players are perfectly right in not being willing to alter their rules (which are undoubtedly far superior to those of the other colleges), still we ask whether it would not have been much better to have sent delegates able to explain...