Word: smith
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...theatre, then, because everybody else does. It has been your misfortune to see ballets in Italy, and opera bouffe in Paris; consequently the clumsy amazons and pages, and the crude, undrilled comedians, do not amuse you at all. You yawn and look about you. Not far off is Smith, with open eyes and open mouth, enjoying himself to his heart's content. He catches your eye as the comic man gets off a pun as stupid as the jokes of a circus clown; and he leans across and remarks that it is bully. You smile and nod, and are pleased...
...have received an exceedingly neat little book containing the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, which Dr. Smith, in his History of Rome, classes among the most delightful productions of the human intellect. The name of the translator, known to us all through his Ancient Atlas, is a sufficient guaranty of the manner in which the translation has been made. We have room but for one extract. It applies particularly to those who find difficulty in going to prayers...
...candidates for the University crew are Legate, Lemoyne, Harriman, of '77; Bancroft, Loring, Lemoyne, Littauer, Harding, of '78; Jacobs, Brigham, Schwartz, Crocker, Preston, Smith, of '79. An eight and six are still on the river. Mr. Dana of the Law School is looking after the "torpids...
Orations: Sykes, A. E. Smith, H. Whiting, Woodberry. Dissertations: O'Callaghan, Sprague, H. R. Bailey, Gooding, Leland, Byrne, H. Wheeler, F. W. Smith, Kenefick, Tillinghast. Disquisitions: S. N. Cutler, Bond, Davis, A. G. Morse, Starr, Tiffany, Goodwin, Gilman, Lynde, Dwyer, Strobel, White, Stringham, Clary. Essays: Barnes, C. R. Browne, Wiswell, Smiley...
...rich man, I have furnished your room in such a manner that, to say the least, it is not superior to those of many of your classmates; and you wind up with a glowing description of the Eastlake glories of the furniture of that eminent Freshman, Smith. In your discontent with the commonplace character of your household gods, you have forgotten one of my express recommendations, - to avoid extravagance; and you have forgotten another thing which I have implied in all my letters, - that you ought to be, and to be known as, a man of taste. A rich fellow...