Word: mr
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...arranged them in alphabetical order, and went to Mr. Archibald's first. He had been my father's school-teacher...
...door was opened by a remarkably pretty girl, who, as I learned afterwards, was Mr. Archibald's daughter. She showed me into a room where her father was. He was an old man with white hair. He asked about my father and family, and then about my studies...
...protested, but it was of no avail. The book was forced upon me, and I was compelled to stumble through first the scanning and then the translation of an ode or two. Mr. Archibald held his watch open in his hand...
...chance, but by the long practice and the severe training which the crew have kept up during the year. Each man on the crew deserves the thanks of the University for the untiring efforts each has expended to win the success of which we are all so proud. To Mr. Watson, the coach, we owe a debt of profound gratitude which we most gratefully acknowledge; but the one man to whom Harvard owes most for the success of her oars is the captain, Mr. Bancroft. His earnest labors, his close attention to the needs of each man, his deep study...
...graduated summa cum lands, and his name, as everybody knows, is Gerrit Smith Sykes. If it could boast of nothing else, this alone would fairly entitle the class to the highest distinction. We feel that we are merely following the example of all of his friends, when we offer Mr. Sykes our most hearty congratulations on his happy success. If, then, any one is disposed to censure our seeming partiality to Seventy-seven, we simply beg leave to direct his attention to the above-mentioned statistics, bearing in mind the hitherto veracious reputation of plain figures...