Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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The author, by the by, says, "This easy and familiar old pronunciation is done away with, in favor of a new and foreign-sounding style." Is it not well to change the wrong for the right? And does not it seem natural that the language of foreigners long dead should...
THE annual supper of the Advocate editors took place at the Parker House, Thursday, Feb, 27, and was in every way a success.
TO-NIGHT, March 7, there will be given some theatricals in Liberty Hall, at New Bedford, Mass, by a number of Harvard students. The programme consists of the farce "A Turkish Bath," and the popular burlesque" Lurline."
AT a recent chemistry lecture the professor succeeded in freezing water contained in a red-hot crucible, a feat which so charmed a certain Freshman that he was heard to exclaim: "How delightful to have such a man for my companion in the future life!" It will be seen at...
THE Chelsea Public thinks the IT H guilty of unpardonable impudence in not leaving the modern Pompeii, cap in hand, with obsequious thanks for the well-meant castigation inflicted upon it by the Public. It particularly resents a recent article in the Advocate which dared to question the Public's...