Word: reference
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...MEASLES must have done a rushing business down at Harvard, otherwise there would not have been much occasion for that enterprising undertaker to start a new coffin-warehouse right opposite the College. Yet the evil is over, but an epidemic worse than measles has broken out. We refer to the baseball and regatta business, which now monopolizes every available corner of the Crimson and Advocate. Why did the measles deal so kindly with Harvard's College editors...
...guess that's so," broke in Renardy. "And now, aged phrenologist, were I master of these spacious apartments, I should first entertain you with biscuits and sherry, and then request you to bestow your valuable presence elsewhere. As the matter stands, let me refer you to this gentleman, who has been eagerly waiting till you were at leisure and he could pour into your sympathetic ear something that's on his mind...
...some time, I shall venture to devote it to a subject which may not be of immediate interest to you at this moment, but which certainly will occupy a great deal of your time when you have penetrated a little deeper into the mysteries of college life. I refer to college societies, clubs, et cetera...
...following lines from the last Advocate refer to one who was lately Dean of the Faculty...
...honor of the College we are sorry to be obliged to refer, in any way, to the meeting of the Senior class on Wednesday evening. Of the officers elected it is of course none of our business to express an opinion. But in our last issue we expressed a hope that the meeting would be distinguished by the absence of those traits which have predominated too much in the past, and that the qualifications required of candidates for office would have been their fitness for the duties expected to devolve upon them, rather than their connection or non-connection with...