Word: riche
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Graduate club, and as such it is expected to take its proper place among the permanent clubs of Harvard University. The officers of the club are: President, Mr. Siebert; vice-president, Dr. Markley; secretary, Mr. Roe; treasurer, Mr. Chittenden. Executive committee: Dr. Markley. chairman; Messrs. Setchell, Nields, Rich, Conger, Manley, Delabarre, Sabine, Roe, Ball...
This task which has been offered to the American school will doubtless require the labor of many years. This is not to be regretted, since these years will develop a new generation of American scholars, and will be no less rich in popular enlightenment, here in America in regard to the art and literature, the religion and the politics of the wonderful race to which we so largely owe our own civilization...
Lysias was born at Athens in 459 B. C. He was the son of Cephalus, a rich merchant of Piraeus. His father's wealth enabled him to associate with the leading men of the city, and to pursue his education in the best schools of Athens. The period of his literary activity began soon after the expulsion of the Thirty Tyrants, when he delivered his famous speech against Eratosthenes. It lasted about thirty years, during which time he wrote over two hundred speeches. The chief characteristic of Lysias style was his ability to adapt the speech to the character...
...though good rowing material will undoubtedly be discovered through it. It is intended to extend the use of rowing as a pastime. Anyone who has seen at the English Universities thirty or forty boats of all descriptions, by thus used of an afternoon, by teachers and students, by the rich and the poor, will be pleased to think that rowing will soon be, not only the profession of a few among us, but the healthy recreation of a great many...
...very poor manner in which the college rooms have been attended to in the past. The occupants of college buildings are obliged to pay prices for their rooms which should ensure for them the best of care, but heretofore these buildings have appeared to be nothing more than a rich treasury for a corps of greedy janitors...