Word: layed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...course of which he said: "It was the custom in Ben Jonson's days, upon the death of a writer, for his brethren of the profession to throw their pens into the grave. And to-night we, the friends of him, the anniversary of whose birthday we commemorate, lay down a few selections of our literary labors to his memory." At the conclusion of his speech, Colonel Higginson read a short poem called "Dame Cragie." The Rev. Augustus M. Lord, a poet of considerable repute, then gave Longfellow's "The Chambered Nautilus." The first author introduced was Mrs. Julia Ward...
...cities than Boston. Those who live here all the year round can be at home on Easter Day. But it is not so with the others. If we remember aright, when the suggestion to lengthen the Christmas recess was brought up last year, the faculty replied that the power lay not in their hands, but in those of the overseers. Our correspondent has done well in agitating the matter thus early; for there will be plenty of time for the faculty to bring the question before the Board of Over seers if it meets with their approval. It would seem...
...year ago a large sum of money was left by a millionaire for the purpose of founding a university at Worcester, in spite of the fact that both Harvard and Yale, two of the few American colleges which can lay a just claim to the title of "university," are grievously in need of financial aid. And now comes the report from a New York paper that "H. J. Furber, Jr., a rich young millionaire of Chicago, is preparing to found a large university in that city, and will devote $1,000,000 to the purpose...
...claimed with a great deal of justice that these degrees offer no criterion by which the merits of the recipients can be judged. When we think, however, of the vast differences which prevail in standards and in methods, we must be convinced that it is impossible at present to lay down any common rule by which degrees are to be awarded. But it is very surprising to find sometimes that degrees of the same grade granted by the same college do not always mean the same thing. This is true of the degree A. M. given by Harvard. A graduate...
...Harvard L. L. D. lay in his drawer, And, on it, Jimmy's name-twelve years before...