Word: mr
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...gentlemen of Mr. Donaldson's club table, at Mrs. Browne's, have subscribed for a handsome prize to be given to the winner of the mile walk next Friday...
...MR. SHALER will give any required information concerning Nat. Hist. 1 and 4, the Post-Graduate courses in Physical Geology, the Post-Graduate courses in Palaeontology, and the summer school of Geology in his lecture-room in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (northeast corner), on Wednesday the 20th; also on Wednesday the 27th, at 11 A. M. - Bulletin Board...
...seems plain, then, that to insist on good reading would not be out of place on the part of the Professor; but if Mr. Child, who has probably been hardened by long tribulation, has decided to pay no attention to this point, it would still be well for those who take the elective next year to make up their minds to lighten his weight and their own, by putting a little more life into the recitations, and trying to find pleasure in what they read. It is strange that so many who think it worth while to take a course...
...object of these words is not to find fault with the work of this year, but to show what another year may be made to bring forth. Mr. Child is beyond doubt in the right about the elocution question; but if he would make it clearly understood that good reading is a desideratum in his classes, and if the students would endeavor simply to pay attention and to be interested (if they did this they would be obliged to read well), then both the advantage and the enjoyment of the course would be doubled. It is somnambulistic and apathetic reading...
...Umpire: Mr. Horton of New Haven...