Word: publickly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attendance on them was enforced by requiring the payment of money for every failure to attend, in addition to sundry "admonitions" from the president, which were given gratis. Only the most urgent excuse could be received. In 1731 the overseers recommended additional fines for "playing or sleeping at publick worship or prayers," and it was further declared by them that if any "undergraduate comes tardy to prayers (without reasons allowed by ye president or tutor) he shall be fined two-pence. And if he be absent from prayers without reasons as aforesaid, he shall be fined four-pence each time...
...Edward Everett. In their "Address," the editors proclaim it to be the object of their paper to present the "many valuable hints suggested in a course of general study, which can only be published with propriety in the miscellaneous collections of a periodical pamphlet. . . . It is to be the publick common-place of its contributors." And then in further detail they explain what subjects will especially be treated: American literature; discussions of the "various subjects assigned for the college forensick disputations;" solutions of problems in mathematicks; discussions in natural history; "compositions in the classical languages;" "essays of a moral...
Expenses of publick rooms, repairs, catalogues...