Word: sermonizing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...This sermon-like opening of my letter is suggested, as you must have perceived, by your criticisms upon the troupe that has lately been delighting the admirers of the school of drama which has been described as the legitimate with a hard g. Now I perfectly agree with you that to a man who is accustomed to decently artistic acting an English burlesque is as dull as a game of old maid. But, at the same time, to a man whose dramatic taste has not been educated it seems very amusing. And for my own part, instead of growing disgusted...
...ashamed. All right. Don't do any more; and if you can control yourself in the future you will have obtained experience that will be valuable to you as a man of the world. I have nothing left but to beg a thousand pardons for this long sermon from...
...find that my letter is as long as a real sermon, and I will close it at once, with the hope that you will have had the patience to read far enough to discover that it comes from
...Baccalaureate sermon was preached by Dr. Peabody in the Chapel last Sunday afternoon. About two thirds of the class were present...
SENIORS can get their copies of the Baccalaureate Sermon, Class-Day Oration, Poem, etc., at Harvard-Hall Recitation-Room on Class-Day between...