Word: nessing
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...that given last night, at the Albany Hotel, by the Rocky Mountain Harvard Club. About 8 p.m. the Harvard graduates at present in the city, were called together in the main parlor, and a permanent organization effected. Joseph N. Baxter, '75, was chosen president, and the Rev. Thomas Van Ness vice-president, and Chambers Baird, '82, secretary. After the constitution of the club had been adopted the members, with their guests, repaired to the elegant dining room, which was fitted up with neat floral designs, and the crimson color of the college...
...true latine prose, and hath skill in makeing verse, and is competently grounded in the greek language, so as to be able to construe and grammatically to resolve ordinary greek as the greeke testament, Isocrates and the Minor poets or such like, having withall meet testimony of his toward-ness, he shall be capable of his admission Into Colledge...
...otherwise; if the orator, with only a scholar's preparation, could spring full-armed to life, like Minerva from the Thunderer's brow. We should then be spared the blunders and failures of the young orator in his eager and oft-times futile efforts for success; that crude-ness which, in the young orator as in the budding writer, may be called, by a metaphor as true as it is homely, "veal." But this is one of the things impossible. The little bird, seeing its parent flying from bough to bough, thinks it can do the same. Having found itself...