Word: persons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Wise," and "Mistakes and Improprieties of Conversation and Writing Corrected." The address is a clear and positive exposition of the general laws and rules that should govern conversation, and though originally written for and delivered before young ladies, the principles set forth are applicable alike to all persons. The doctor's wide experience of life and society makes him a valued authority, and the advice he gives is practical, and illustrated by familiar examples of many common and insiduous errors of language and expression. Trench's lecture is a more elaborate and careful inquiry into the rules of discourse...
...that it has received the approval of several members of the college government, and it seems, next to the scheme for a regular university commons, to be the most feasible of any yet suggested. It is that a contract be made between the corporation and some experienced and responsible person, by which the latter shall be allowed to conduct a students' dining hall in Memorial, furnishing (under certain restrictions) board to those members of the university who desire it. Under this plan satisfactory board at varying rates, adjusted to the requirements of all classes, could and would undoubtedly be furnished...
...Windsor, England, the insane American student, Hare, has been acquitted of the charge of petty fraud, but has been detained as a person of unsound mind...
...until then will the students see how much it has done toward cheapening the price of board in Cambridge. To be sure, there has been good ground for complaint in the past, but only let the old boarders return, let them take a personal interest in the welfare of the association, instead of heaping reproach upon the directors, and all may run smoothly yet, the board will be better and the price lower. The first important measure for the committee, or whoever has the care of such matters, is to prosecute a strict inquiry as to the cause...
...number and name was called he was allowed to enter and purchase. About one hundred and seventy floor tickets were sold for each day, and an additional one hundred and fifty gallery tickets for the last day, the sale of the latter being limited to five to each person. All attempts at speculation were decisively defeated by the action of Mr. Wendell, the president of the Athletic Association. There was an immense crowd in attendance to buy tickets, and we fear many were disappointed...