Word: second
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...accordance with the vote passed at the O. K. dinner last year, the committee then appointed have made arrangements for a second dinner and reunion of the past and present members of the society, on Tuesday evening, April 2, 1878, at Young's Hotel, in Boston. Rev. George L. Chaney, the first president of the society, will preside. The tickets for the dinner will be $2.50 each, and they can be obtained from any of the undersigned, by personal application or by mail. If members will purchase their tickets at an early day it will greatly facilitate the efforts...
...Shaftesbury's "Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humor"; Akenside's "Pleasures of the Imagination," note on 3d Book; Bentham's "Works," Vol. 11. pp. 114, 360. Specimens of ridicule employed argumentatively : many of Swift's Works, The Spectator passim, British Essayists, Petroleum V. Nasby's Letters. Time, second Monday in May. 2d division : Are we justified in pursuing sports which have for their aim or issue the suffering and death of the lower animals? References : Works of Soame Jenyns, Vol. III. p. 186 et seq.; Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society...
...second day's sports in the Gymnasium last Saturday afternoon filled the little building to a most uncomfortable degree. Fortunately for the contestants, if not for many others, the request that gentlemen would not smoke was strictly observed, and the air was not so stifling as usual...
...second bout of the light-weight sparring followed, Messrs. H. E. Teschemacher, '78, and L. A. Plummer, Jr. L. S. S., '79, being the contestants. This bout was very lively. Mr. Plummer was cool and collected, while Mr. Teschemacher was rather more excited. Sharp blows were exchanged and very pretty dodging was exhibited by both men. The bout was awarded to Mr. Plummer...
...second bout of the sparring-match between Messrs. Otis and Sharon followed. Hard hitting was drawn forth by a severe counter dealt Mr. Otis by Mr. Sharon, the blows up to that time having been light. Mr. Sharon won the bout...