Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...renewed his efforts. At the end of the second quarter, the class was again mustered, and Mr. Emery stood before it, when, after a deep silence, he said: "Daniel Webster gather up your books, and take down your cap." As the boy tremblingly bayed, the teacher added, "Now, sir, you will report to the teacher of the first! And you, young gentlemen, will take an affectionate leave of your classmate, for you will never see him again...
...shades. Here I am shown the cell where Thomas Cranmer was confined, and there I stand on the very spot where Latimer and Ridley were burned. I enter the noble quadrangle of Christ Church, and remember that it was founded by Cardinal Wolsey, and that John Locke, Ben Johnson, Sir Philip Sydney, William Penn, the Duke of Wellington and William E. Gladstone have been among its students. Oriel College reminds us of Sir Walter Raleigh, Bishop Butler, Thomas Arnold and John H. Newman. Corpus Christi once had Coleridge for a pupil, and from University College the ethereal Shelly was expelled...
...Politics; Politics as present History. This is the principle which animates the new study. Its method is found in an adaptation of the modern scientific method of Agassiz, of Humboldt, and of Darwin, to the past and present facts of man's political existence. The works of Freeman, of Sir Henry Maine, of Von Holst, are of this school...
...without some help from the Sackville interest with the owners of the Portman estate. On this ground, called Lord's, a match was played in three days of June, 1787, between the all England and five men of the White Conduit Club. with six men given. Lord Winchilsea and Sir Peter Burrel played for the latter, who were easily defeated. Lord's efforts resulted in the establishment of the Marylebone Club, who revised the rules of their favorite game before the season of 1788, on June 27 of which year they played and won their first recorded match...
...DEAR SIR-At a meeting of the graduate committee on boating, your application for permission to engage Mr. Bancroft as coach has had full and careful consideration. It is the unanimous opinion of the graduate committee that the practice of having a professional or paid coach is inexpedient and detrimental to the best interests of rowing at Harvard, and we therefore strongly advise that this custom be discontinued now and hereafter. We hope you will give the matter due thought, and arrive at the same conclusion we have. Under the circumstances, therefore, we do not approve your employing Mr. Bancroft...