Word: likely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...strong argument for an infirmary here is the success that has attended the Yale infirmary. There all students, who use the infirmary, pay for their doctor, nurse and the like, and one dollar a day additional for the conveniences of the building...
...enjoys nothing so much as a good round of applause. First, it shows that I am welcome, and secondly, it gives me a chance to think what I shall say next. I do not mean to say that I have come to address you unprepared, nor am I exactly like Mr. Lowell, who said he got off the best after dinner speeches he ever made, coming home...
...that one of his great speeches, which used to make a great hit, fell flat. Was it an old story with the audience? The character has been detected by his son in the act of stealing. "When you spoke that speech ten years ago," replied Mrs. Warner, "you spoke like a man accused of theft by his son. You hardly knew what to say. You stood abashed and acted like an honest man for the first time accused of theft. Now it is an old story with you. You make the speech as if you had been accustomed to steal...
...depends on what it is endowed with. If endowed with talent, it would succeed in Boston as well as anywhere else. The question is often asked, why can not we have a theatre like the Comedie Francaise. France is Paris, Germany is Berlin, England is London. America on the other hand, is made up of a number of metropolises. Where would the national theatre be? New York would claim by right of her size, Boston would claim because she is the home of culture and refinement, Washington would claim it as the capital city of America. However there...
Beyond the perfection of plans and the organization of committees who will have charge of the lectures, marking of sites and the like, probably nothing will be done by the society this year. At the beginning of next year more men will be taken on from the senior class and active work will then be begun...