Word: rd
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Alson Broncott called the meeting to order in a felicitous speech, and then asked Mr. F-lds to pass the hat. A general outcry of consternation followed. Mr. J-mes G-rd-n Benn-tt said that it was a dead give-away, and that the Irish were in need of funds to help carry on the glorious work of exterminating, "bloated bond-holders," and that he (Mr. B.) could feel for the poor; Mr. Gl-dst-ne declared that Dizzy must be pensioned; his lordship replied with some asperity, that he was writing another novel, which fact called...
...living representatives of the lost digamma. And now I have a fellow-worker, a co-operator, a ???." At this point his emotion again mastered him, and another speaker demanded my attention. And this is what he said: "In the name of the Faculty of Ha-v-erfo(rd) College, I award highest honors to you as a reward for excellence in the special subjects covered by your examinations. And, further, as a reward for the originality and general culture displayed throughout your papers, the degree of D. D., after mature deliberation, is conferred upon you; and as an additional proof...