Word: letting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...urgently request all those men who have not been taken to make appointments, as soon as possible, as it is important that the work of taking the negatives should be soon finished in order to secure good pictures. They also ask those who have had good proofs made, to let the operator know as soon as possible, whether they will accept them...
...sorry to learn that in the spring the Holmes' house, in spite of all its associations, is to be removed or torn down. We are not rich enough in America in historical monuments and memories to let so noteworthy a building go without a protest. Here was the headquarters of General Artemus Ward, during the first days of the Revolution. In its corners are the dents of revolutionary muskets stacked there by the patriot soldiers. Here, also, Oliver Wendell Holmes, America's greatest wit and one of her most charming writers, was born. Loosely bound to the past and with...
...college and possess such a culture. If your college is to sap the vitality of men, to wither their brains by spring-forcing, to make them know so much that they avail nothing, to send forth graduates who are a perpetual sneer at their less learned betters, then let us have no colleges. But are we thus to slap civilization in the face, and because animals can run into evil courses, become vegetables which cannot? This indeed amounts to throwing up the game of life and admitting that the world is worse off the older it gets...
...clock prayers were kept another year by a majority of one. On hearing the result he intimated that early rising would keep people out of mischief at night, and he certainly felt that six o'clock prayers would be unpleasant to the makers of the bonfire. Let us hope that they were...
...unreasonable when we again request those in authority to take some active measures in regard to the subject. We have said nothing about the injustice and inefficiency of the system, but simply have spoken about one of its necessary evils that alone is a strong reason for condemning it. Let something be done about it then by all means, and we earnestly hope at least some appreciable effort may be made to bring a better state of affairs...