Search Details

Word: send (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...last fall for college, he said: "My dear boy some time you may be in want of advice such as I cannot give you. If that is the case, go to the best lawyer in Boston and state your trouble to him. Some men, and many women, like to send their sons to parsons. But I tell you, a lawyer knows forty times as much about the world as a parson does...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FAIR ELECTION. | 5/18/1877 | See Source »

...been made about that part of the field, his man was entitled to as many bases as he could get. The Yale men refused to play the game out, and after a quarter of an hour's parley our Captain agreed, for the sake of continuing the game, to send Fessenden back to second, and count one run only. Play was then resumed. Nothing more worthy of notice occurred, except in the last inning Duncklee caught a hot ball, for which he was obliged to run nearly to second; his catch was much applauded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD '80 versus YALE '80. | 5/18/1877 | See Source »

ORDERS for the '77 class pictures and groups will be received from all who are or have been connected with the University at the prices named in the photograph lists, which can be obtained at 39 M. or 19 T. Those wishing pictures should send in their orders as soon as possible to the Class Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/4/1877 | See Source »

...theatre peculiarly adapted for such purposes. The establishment of a course of fortnightly or monthly lectures on questions of the day by men who devote their lives to the subjects they would be called upon to explain would satisfy an imperative need of our education, and enable Harvard to send forth that constant supply of educated practical men which the country has a right to expect of her, - a right thus far too little regarded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LECTURES ON LIVE TOPICS. | 5/4/1877 | See Source »

...venerable Ubiquity will invite him to depart thence. But in spite of the antipathy displayed for the organ-grinder by the powers that preside over our studies, the student himself will infinitely prefer the performances of that much-abused personage, to those of the man overhead whose rowing-weights send forth a most distressing discord, half rumble, half squeak, or, still worse, whose religious enthusiasm finds its vent in practising Tabernacle tunes on a reed-organ. No sane person would hesitate to decide that "Just in time for Lanergan's ball" rendered on a good hand-organ by jist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ORGAN-GRINDER. | 4/20/1877 | See Source »

Previous | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | Next