Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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PROFESSOR PAINE'S piano recitals will begin on the second Thursday after vacation, in Boylston Hall, at half past seven o'clock...
...first day of April being past and no change having been made in the hour of commencing recitations, we have entered upon a trial of a system which we think the majority of the students wished to have put in practice. The boating and ball men would like, doubtless, the extra hour in the afternoon, but by far the greater number of students prefer not to gain an hour in the morning, if at the same time an hour in the evening has to be sacrificed...
...seems altogether undesirable. It would cause an immense amount of inconvenience without giving any compensating gain in time. The time allotted for breakfast would be shortened nearly one half, since, in order to reach chapel, one must get to breakfast at least as early as half past seven; and even then there would be no enjoyment of the meal, but a rapid shovelling process, alike disagreeable and detrimental, would take place. Should we fail, by reason of a morning nap or otherwise, to reach the hall before this early hour, either breakfast or chapel must be sacrificed. A modifying suggestion...
Happy in thee and in the past I 'II rest...
...sound he gives to such words as boat, home, comb, throat, spoke, coat, poke, etc., is unlike anything I ever heard before, and has to be heard from the lips of a genuine up-country Yankee to be understood. Duty, tune, lucid, blue, etc., become dooty, toon, bloo, etc. Past, fast, last, etc., invariably parst, farst, larst, only the r is not distinct. Whether he is right in saying demand, command, castle, example, I won't undertake to decide; he certainly has much authority on his side. Perhaps, however, the safest way to shun the extremities represented by the Western...