Word: likes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...notices of society meetings and the like, should be left in the box at Leavitt & Pierce's, and not at the Sanctum. All notices must be received before 9 p.m. on the day preceding publication...
...hard work to block Harvard and stop our men from breaking through; but their tackling was good, every man ducking down and going for the waist. Our rush-line, as has been said before, tackled abominably and played a loose game, Butler being the only man who played anything like a good game, and even his playing was not up to the mark...
...after the entrance of the procession, every part of the building was filled by a crowded audience. After a voluntary on the organ, the Rev. Dr. Ripley offered a solemn and fervent prayer. Although more than eighty years of age, he spoke in a clear and powerful voice. Like the Jewish leader, 'his eyes were not dim, nor his natural force abated...
...command of his voice. We are repelled or attracted by the tones by which a speaker employs, and it is therefore of the utmost value to the acter that he is in control of the means by which he can conciliate and move his hearers. In a country like our own where every man may feel called upon to take part in public affairs, and indeed where men are sometimes drawn into a political career almost against their will, the study of delivery becomes of the highest importance. It is often asked - and frequently too, by honest inquirers - of what...
...weighs over a hundred and fifty pounds and is not incapacitated by physical weakness or deformity to go out and try for his eleven. Captain Slocum is making the most of the material at his disposal, and we hope that his team can beat the Yale freshmen, or, like '88's team, force them to "crawl;" but no team can be a good team without having the best material in the class to draw from, and even the best of teams thus formed cannot live on good wishes. Let '90 support her eleven...