Word: personally
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...week, or $6, for my bills are sent home to be settled by my paternal parent. But I would like to ask a few questions concerning the quality of the board, and the manner in which it is served. Why is it that when a person orders toast, for instance, he cannot have warm toast, instead of some stuff that tastes as if it had been toasted several days before? Why is it that if a person happens to arrive a few minutes after half-past-five he has to eat cold vegetables or none? And why is it that...
...After a person has exposed himself in any way to the public gaze, he naturally looks into the next newspaper published to see what a reception his action has received at the hands of the press. It was probably with such feelings that the sixty freshmen who attended the lecture by Oscar Wilde last Tuesday evening took up the Boston papers Wednesday. As this was the first opportunity that the freshmen have taken for making themselves conspicuous in the eyes of the public, a few comments clipped from the columns of the Boston papers may be of interest...
This time it is "Storer College," West Virginia. They want only $15,000 for a "John Brown" Professorship, to be filled by a colored person. We recommend for the position some one of the Memorial Hall faculty...
...refer, and which occasioned considerable comment at the time, was decided against a young man, Hawley by name, who applied for admission to the Indiana State Agricultural College, better known as the Purdue University. He tendered the required fees, affirmed that he was in all respects a fit person to be admitted to the institution, which he declared was maintained by donations from the General and State Governments, a tax-payer of which he was. Mr. Hawley had previously been a student at the university, and at the close of the term last spring had received an honorable dismissal. When...
During a bull-fight at Matanzas, Cuba, on Sunday, part of the scaffolding supporting the seats gave way, and nearly 300 persons were precipitated into the stables below. One person was killed and others were more or less injured...