Word: m
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...following preliminary arrangements for the election of Class and Class-Day officers. It was agreed that the meeting of the class should be called for Wednesday, November 1st; that nominations for the various offices should be made at any time on or before Monday, October 30th, to C. M. Barnes, Matthews 39, chairman of a committee on nominations, consisting of four members, - one each from the different portions of the class. Nominations must be signed by at least one member of the Senior class...
...interesting, highly colored"; so that the "Boston Style is a phrase proverbially used to denote a florid, pompous manner of writing"; "from this ardor," too, "springs a pronunciation unusually rapid," contracting "two short syllables into one," and pronouncing words "terminating with a liquid, particularly with l, m, or n, in such a manner as to leave out the sound of the vowel: thus, Sweden, Britain, garden, vessel, are extensively pronounced Swed'n, Brit'n, gard'n, vess'l. The syllable ing they abbreviate into en. They also omit the aspirate in words beginning with wh; for example, wheat and wharf...
...Galaxy for November is an excellent number of the magazine. It contains a continuation of "Madcap Violet," Essays by Richard White Grant, T. M. Coan, Albert Rhodes, and others. The story of "Miss Ruth" is almost, without exception, the best of its kind that we have read for years...
...M. Lemoyne, '78, C. G. Weld...
...M. R. Jacobs, '79, W. Sheafe...