Word: lay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...speakers for commencement at Yale have been announced as follows : Abbott, salutatory oration; Bentley, "Dr. Leonard Bacon;" Brewster, "English Liberalism;" Fries, "The Relation of the U. S. to the other American Nations;" French, "The Divine Poet;" Johnson, "College Education;" Lay, "Socrates;" Murphy, "The Melancholy of John Stuart Mill;" Pratt, "Mohammed;" Sanford, "Dean Stanley;" Scudder, "The Mechanical and the Ideal Views of Man;" Titche, "The Sympathy of Nature...
...incorporated by the State of Massachusetts, has appointed a committee of some of its honorary members in college to receive one dollar subscriptions from persons connected with the university. The names of the members of the committee are published below. The money subscribed will be used to purchase and lay out as a public park the land opposite the Longfellow house, and to erect upon it a statue or other memorial to the memory of the poet. It is also designed by the association to buy the Longfellow house, should it ever leave the hands of its present owners...
...manifested in the freshman +++ practices daily. The eight will +++ of Holman, Swartout, Lay, Reed, Beidler, Raht, Hamp, and Musser or Hanford. Holman, Lay, Swartout and either Beidler, Reed or Raht will constitute the four...
...unexpressed wishes of the music-lovers in college do not lead them to expect a liberal support, nor justify them in giving more frequent exhibitions. We think they are wrong, as the college at large would be only too glad to show its approval of their efforts if it lay in its power, although it has never urged the matter. We have not spoken in complaint of the conduct of the Glee Club, nor of the Sodality, but because we hope in the future to enjoy more of their music, and show how fully we would sustain them...
Quite a lively little blaze of two or three minutes duration occurred in a student's room, on Prescott street, yesterday afternoon. The origin of the fire is attributed to a coal from a cigarette, which, dropping in a large pile of papers, lay unnoticed until the papers, books and an adjacent window curtain were in a blaze. There was but one person in the room and he had to do some lively work to prevent a serious fire. The damage done to the carpet and furniture will probably amount...