Word: letting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...review of the more common and objectionable errors of speech and pronunciation heard in American society. Examples are given and corrections made of many faults of language and grammar, including the frequent confusion in the use of verbs and their tenses. A few examples may be given: Apartments to let should be apartments to be let; all over the land, over all the land; it fell on the floor, it fell to the floor; my every hope, all my hopes; he covered it over, leave out over; address your letters, not direct them; he lay on the sofa, not laid...
Therefore it is with great surprise and grief that we hear that changes in these departments have been contemplated. We hope that the authorities will think twice before they let Prof. Palmer go, and that he will also think of position here among the students as well as in the faculty before he accepts the proffered Western professorship...
...cost of living at Harvard College, and while Mr. Butterfield, who, probably, knows little or nothing of the rise in the cost of provisions in the vicinity of Memorial Hall, is racking his brains to reconcile the different estimates in the catalogue as to the cost of living, let us take a peep at Benjamin Emilius Butterfield's home in Saug Centre...
...point of view never looked more promising than at present. There is a large amount of good material in college, and we are pleased to remark that the aforesaid good material has been conscientiously improving itself. We have every reason to anticipate successes for our crew and nine, and let us here forcibly remark that much depends on them this spring. The whole college anxiously awaits the results of the different games and races, and every one feels that the crimson must acquire and maintain a prominent position...
...star routes west of the Mississippi river were recently let for another term of four years...