Word: sir
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...country. When the fire broke out preparations were being made for the annual conversazione, the great social event of the year, and guests had already begun to arrive. The flames spread with great rapidity, and the fine library was soon consumed. The mathematical instruments, and the valuable documents of Sir Daniel Wilson, president of the university, were destroyed...
...DEAR SIR.- The Harvard Bicycle club hereby challenges the Yale Bicycle club to a team race: it leaves the choice of course, distance, number of men, and date, to Yale...
...Both play and acting have faults, but neither are failures. While few in the audience were blind to the faults of either, few would change them for fear of making them worse. Mr. George W. Wilson received applause which no audience could neglect from habit, or deny to desert. Sir Charles Pomander does not furnish much tribute to Mr. Mason and a flat part got a flat rendering from Mr. Boniface. Miss Annie M. Clarke did not act well enough to make Peg Woffington affecting. but fully well enough to make her amusing. Peg, no doubt was a little...
...DEAR SIR. In reply to your challenge of January 14, I will say that our past experience has fully convinced us that our annual race with Harvard is in every way best adapted to our boating interests, and that our decision as stated to you in my letter of December 13, was final and must so remain. With regard to a freshman race, concerning which you wrote to me some time ago, Yale declines to meet Cornell, as other arrangements have been made for our freshmen...
...country. In 1848-9 he lectured before the Institute on the application of metaphysical and ethical science to the evidences of religion; in 1850 on political economy; in 1852, on the origin and development of the English and American constitutions; and subsequently on English philosophers from Bacon to Sir William Hamilton. The most of these lectures were subsequently published. He also published an annotated edition of Virgil, Critical Essays on the History and Present Condition of Speculative Philosophy, Principles of Political Economy, a text book on Logic, Sir William Hamilton's essays on metaphysics, condensed and edited, and not more...