Word: peare
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students to this country is, that a college is almost entirely deprived of the most effective means of overcoming international prejudice and conservatism - advertising. A college can not, or from motives of professional etiquette, will not avail itself of the methods, which, for instance, have brought success to Mr. Pear, the soapman, or Mr. Redfern, the clothesman, or any of the other eminent advertisers who sell their wares in foreign markets. The college, however, is not entirely without resources. It can keep itself before the eye of the student public in a quiet, though not ineffective way. Last year...
...Austin Law Club is made up as follows: Supreme court, Barker, Brown, Griswold, Lowman, Patton, Terry, Twombly and Wigmore; superior court, Cushing, McInnes, Simes and Whittemore, of Harvard, '85, Pear, formerly '87, Blymyer and Wood...
...Pear in his piano solos showed considerable technical skill; but in the first, a nocturne by Chopin, he did not quite reach all the sentiment of the thing; his rendering of the Mazurka however was much more satisfactory. The success of the meeting however from an artistic of view was the movement from the Judassohn trio, played by Messrs. Hillerbrand, Loeb and Palmer: it was exceedingly well done, and evinced not only a high degree of technical skill and careful finish, but a fine artistic feeling that was satisfactory...
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...wipe away the tear that glistened in her eye, she began to dust a volume. I waxed eloquent. "Speaking of antiquities, Miss Wiggleson, have you ever heard the story about George Washington?" A shade passed over her face. Perhaps she doesn't like anecdotes, thought I. "About the pear-tree?" said she. "No, indeed. This is a new and original story. He was at dinner, and having occasion to blow his venerable nose, he excited a great commotion among the ladies. One of these, bending tenderly toward him (Martha wasn't looking): 'Have you a cold, Georgie dear?' This remark...